David Sallak

@pmarca Prompts can and will be ignored. Just ask this guy that lost everything in 9 seconds when his agent deleted a production database after the agent violated specific safety rules it was configured to obey. x.com/lifeof_jer/sta…

Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can. Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval.

@Geiger_Capital @jadler1969 VA voters choosing to offset what NC politicians did. Weird.

5 districts in Virginia now start in this circle… Tentacles from DC reaching across the state.

@MorosKostas @jadler1969 Racism apologist. “Not ideal”?!? Shame on you. Anyone else who did this would be fired for failure to review the entire thing before sharing it.

Ya, so the good news is Trump doesn't appear to have been intentionally posting racist AI slop. The bad news is "I meant to post election conspiracy videos and didn't notice a clip at the end" is maybe not an ideal explanation. 🤣

@LPDonovan Nah. This is a better take. twitter.com/mbrodkorb/stat…

Has there been a VP nom flameout quite like Tim Walz? You've had folks leave suddenly (Palin) and people whose reputations suffered blows (Lieberman, Eagleton), but the former did so on her own terms and the latter stuck around. Even Edwards upped his stock before he was exposed.

@chicagobars A few days? My friend is stuck in PR until Friday, that’s the earliest flight allowed in/out of PR.

“Hey Boss, remember how I was going down to Puerto Rico for New Years? Well…yeah….I’m going to be a few days late getting back in the office to start 2026.”

@BlairKamin @chicagotribune It’s the “T Formation” play!

Oldest play in the book: Chicago Bears say team is considering a move to northwest Indiana—⁦@chicagotribune⁩ chicagotribune.com/2025/12/17/chi…

@Bencjacobs Globalist

Impeach.

@daveweigel I’ll amend my comment. She’s a lawyer, so her replies are carefully parsed. That works in a courtroom, but it’s ill-suited for social media as the modern platform to engage voters today. Your point is compelling - agile response to tough questions requires new type of candidate.

Might be the Pundit’s Fallacy but this is why I think “can you talk and think quickly in any format” is the 2028 primary price of entry. Been nine years since Dems had a candidate who they were confident could nail an interview.

@daveweigel This happens when candidates can’t speak from a genuinely felt philosophy of how they’d lead. Instead, Harris and her Dem peers are so heavily managed by donors, consultants and polls that they struggle to respond to tough questions. Result - her replies sound insincere, fake.

@LPDonovan Nobody expects “in perpetuity”. Just like any other policy, add a sunset so there’s time to come up with a better approach than the current one. Older Americans shouldn’t have to be exposed to an abrupt cost increase in healthcare, just to satisfy an arbitrary fiscal position.

Extending COVID-era ACA subsidies may or may not be necessary at this juncture, practically or politically, but it sure seems like relying on "enhanced" payments to carriers in perpetuity is just masking the underlying problem of affordability.

@OKnox @tylenol This convo is proof neither of us enlisted. However, the average undecided voter isn’t us. Those voters don’t track politics at all, and there’s no Walter Cronkite of the 21st Century informing them how to interpret our modern comms algorithm-driven world.

@OKnox @tylenol It’s the absence of consistency, and ability by wh to cherry-pick a post, that led to the screencap I posted. An ability to apply nuance and interpretation, in 2025, is not really possible when the info ecosystem has been broken.

This is not Tylenol saying "don't use our product if pregnant." It's Tylenol saying "we are not your doctor." Do searches for from:@tylenol recommend or from:@tylenol pregnant.

@LPDonovan twitter.com/mattzeitlin/st…

Just watched the clip and whatever you think about the sanction I'm shocked the writers/producers let him climb that far out on such a shaky limb.

@jadler1969 Use the Block feature. It’s simple. Just like here.

Meanwhile, over at what is supposed to be the good place.

@ezraklein I asked my dad and his brother about living thru the killings of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X (pause… that 4 major political killings in 4 years, astonishing). I asked if current times remind them of the late 60s. Their reply? “Not yet.”

In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife - Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson - The assassination of Charlie Kirk Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all. The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

@MattGlassman312 Matt - it was normal “noise” by click chasers. They exist on all social platforms, including BlueSky. You can insist on honest debate, and block those that are not adding value to your posted article. Curation of replies on BlueSky is encouraged.

Well, I think I'm done with Bluesky, LOL. In 15+ years on this site, I've never been as piled on as I was yesterday over there for saying "IMO it's not a strategically good idea for Dems to cause a shutdown." I'm sure it's a useful site for some, but that was just too absurd.

@LPDonovan @MattGlassman312 Matt and Liam - the arguments in the substack citing why shutdown is bad for Dems makes one massive assumption - elections in 2026 will occur. I’d bet my house that the Exec branch causes elections to not occur at all. Trump has tools to stop it - and he won’t allow it.

Matt is right (obviously) but it's more fun to tie yourself in knots about complicity.

@dieworkwear 📌

one of my favorite instagram accounts is this (British?) woman and her insane dog IG shnootle.hound

@LPDonovan Agree. Had 4 more Dems been present, the Rs would’ve adjusted accordingly. Having 3 dead Dems and 1 absent Dem meant more Rs could take principled positions while the rest got the vote over the line.

Continue to think this is the wrong takeaway. The consistent signal is that they'll get the votes they need to get--no more, no less, absolutely no style points.