Richard Mischook
@rmischook.bsky.social
Born and raised in Montréal but living in Northern Ireland for over 20 years. I write software for a living mostly for iPhones and iPads. I love music especially Jazz but more recently branching out into Classical. I’m a wee bit into history.
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This is incredible, just a year and a half after leaving Apple and launching their company with the cutest web site imaginable, the creators of Shortcuts are demoing an AI assistant that appears actually useful, and deeply integrated into your Mac.
For the past two weeks, I’ve been testing Sky, the new app by the original Shortcuts team.
It’s a mind-blowing app that brings AI + automation everywhere on your Mac. Coming later this year. It’ll change how we think of AI features on macOS.
My exclusive story: www.macstories.net/stories/sky-...
It’s a mind-blowing app that brings AI + automation everywhere on your Mac. Coming later this year. It’ll change how we think of AI features on macOS.
My exclusive story: www.macstories.net/stories/sky-...
From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac
Over the course of my career, I’ve had three distinct moments in which I saw a brand-new app and immediately felt it was going to change how I used my computer – and they were all about empowering peo...
www.macstories.net
May 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This is incredible, just a year and a half after leaving Apple and launching their company with the cutest web site imaginable, the creators of Shortcuts are demoing an AI assistant that appears actually useful, and deeply integrated into your Mac.
Thames Water is collapsing. NO BAILOUTS for the shareholders and banks who caused this mess. Tell the government to take it into public ownership PERMANENTLY and protect the public interest. #WeOwnIt
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
Bring Thames Water into public ownership | We Own It
weownit.org.uk
June 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Thames Water is collapsing. NO BAILOUTS for the shareholders and banks who caused this mess. Tell the government to take it into public ownership PERMANENTLY and protect the public interest. #WeOwnIt
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney 🇨🇦 -
I’ve faced down economic challenges before.
I’m ready to do it again. #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli
I’ve faced down economic challenges before.
I’m ready to do it again. #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli
April 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Prime Minister Mark Carney 🇨🇦 -
I’ve faced down economic challenges before.
I’m ready to do it again. #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli
I’ve faced down economic challenges before.
I’m ready to do it again. #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli
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April 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A pro-Poilievre misinformation campaign from the U.S. has been uncovered.
The Financial Times is reporting that thousands of fake accounts from the U.S. are boosting Poilievre and attacking Carney.
#Canadians are being bombarded on X, Facebook, and TikTok with U.S. misinformation.
#CBC #cdnpoli
The Financial Times is reporting that thousands of fake accounts from the U.S. are boosting Poilievre and attacking Carney.
#Canadians are being bombarded on X, Facebook, and TikTok with U.S. misinformation.
#CBC #cdnpoli
April 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
A pro-Poilievre misinformation campaign from the U.S. has been uncovered.
The Financial Times is reporting that thousands of fake accounts from the U.S. are boosting Poilievre and attacking Carney.
#Canadians are being bombarded on X, Facebook, and TikTok with U.S. misinformation.
#CBC #cdnpoli
The Financial Times is reporting that thousands of fake accounts from the U.S. are boosting Poilievre and attacking Carney.
#Canadians are being bombarded on X, Facebook, and TikTok with U.S. misinformation.
#CBC #cdnpoli
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Canada as you vote, here is a reminder of who the Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and Modi ally Pierre Poilievre really is. #cdnpoli
Pierre Poilievre has been in politics for 20 years, he's written 0 legislation; has one of the highest pensions in government. He's voted against the environment & climate nearly 400 times, derailed legislation to benefit workers, and voted against affordable housing initiatives.
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Canada as you vote, here is a reminder of who the Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and Modi ally Pierre Poilievre really is. #cdnpoli
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Until the Orange Juice King and his minions lick maple syrup off my boots, US products can burn in incinerators.
He threatened and continues to threaten invasion. Do you know how expensive a credible nuclear deterrent is going to be?
Screw'm.
He threatened and continues to threaten invasion. Do you know how expensive a credible nuclear deterrent is going to be?
Screw'm.
April 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Until the Orange Juice King and his minions lick maple syrup off my boots, US products can burn in incinerators.
He threatened and continues to threaten invasion. Do you know how expensive a credible nuclear deterrent is going to be?
Screw'm.
He threatened and continues to threaten invasion. Do you know how expensive a credible nuclear deterrent is going to be?
Screw'm.
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April 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The 30 permanent and 20 seasonal employees of Great Basin National Park serve 150,000 visitors a year, an industry which generates more than $10 million in visitor spending and is responsible for two-thirds of White Pine County's sales tax revenue. "Negative productivity" indeed.
April 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The 30 permanent and 20 seasonal employees of Great Basin National Park serve 150,000 visitors a year, an industry which generates more than $10 million in visitor spending and is responsible for two-thirds of White Pine County's sales tax revenue. "Negative productivity" indeed.
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Meet Anthony Schmidt, a 16-year-old with #autism who turns #miniature #cars into life-sized works of #art through his incredible #photography
April 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Meet Anthony Schmidt, a 16-year-old with #autism who turns #miniature #cars into life-sized works of #art through his incredible #photography
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Boris Kagarlitsky is a leftist economist languishing in a Russian prison. He stood up, as a rare voice, against the Yeltsin-era privatisations that begat the current oligarchy. A prison cell was his reward. If on 19 April you are in Milwaukee, come to this event. Free Boris!
April 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Boris Kagarlitsky is a leftist economist languishing in a Russian prison. He stood up, as a rare voice, against the Yeltsin-era privatisations that begat the current oligarchy. A prison cell was his reward. If on 19 April you are in Milwaukee, come to this event. Free Boris!
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Just like a bunch of tech ghouls to reinvent the Great Leap Forward but dumber.
April 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Just like a bunch of tech ghouls to reinvent the Great Leap Forward but dumber.
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If you ever meet someone spouting this nonsense, just ask what steps they’re taking to prepare their kids for mining careers.
April 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
If you ever meet someone spouting this nonsense, just ask what steps they’re taking to prepare their kids for mining careers.
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Did you know that the Mediterranean used to be a big salt lake, blurring the geographical distinction between Europe and Africa? This changed during one of many great floods…
The largest [known - and this is just in the last few million years] flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years theconversation.com/the-largest-...
The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
New evidence supports theory of ‘Zanclean megaflood’ 5 million years ago.
theconversation.com
April 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Did you know that the Mediterranean used to be a big salt lake, blurring the geographical distinction between Europe and Africa? This changed during one of many great floods…
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They never don't look painfully stupid
April 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
They never don't look painfully stupid
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“Why isn’t there an app for that? That’d be easy!”
Usually this is an ignorant statement. But when @kejames.bsky.social made this comment in a thread and my gut and snarky instinct was to look up the API and explain why it’s not easy, I discovered that…it is easy. They had a fantastic idea!
Usually this is an ignorant statement. But when @kejames.bsky.social made this comment in a thread and my gut and snarky instinct was to look up the API and explain why it’s not easy, I discovered that…it is easy. They had a fantastic idea!
April 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“Why isn’t there an app for that? That’d be easy!”
Usually this is an ignorant statement. But when @kejames.bsky.social made this comment in a thread and my gut and snarky instinct was to look up the API and explain why it’s not easy, I discovered that…it is easy. They had a fantastic idea!
Usually this is an ignorant statement. But when @kejames.bsky.social made this comment in a thread and my gut and snarky instinct was to look up the API and explain why it’s not easy, I discovered that…it is easy. They had a fantastic idea!
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🏴 You'll all know of Scotland's mythical Loch Ness monster, but have you heard of the Giant Cats of Dunbar?
*ARCHIVE:
spotter: ignored_attentionseeker;
new harbour, 56.005200,-2.516210;
1525hrs 7/8/22
spotter: ignored_attentionseeker;
new harbour, 56.005200,-2.516210;
1525hrs 7/8/22
April 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🏴 You'll all know of Scotland's mythical Loch Ness monster, but have you heard of the Giant Cats of Dunbar?
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The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
April 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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11 year old Mark Carney writes to the Edmonton Journal:
March 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
11 year old Mark Carney writes to the Edmonton Journal:
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It’s borderline criminal.
March 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It’s borderline criminal.
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“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
"A whole new level of cruelty": Health experts decry "devastating" cuts to HIV treatment programs
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment.
www.salon.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
12% of the North's land could be opened up for mining exploration if Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald approves these seven licenses. I've signed this petition opposing these licenses - will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/no...
Sign Now: No Mining in Northern Ireland
12% of the North's land could be opened up for mining exploration if Economy Minister @caoimhearchibaldmla approves these seven licenses. I've signed this petition opposing these licenses - will you s...
my.actnowni.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
12% of the North's land could be opened up for mining exploration if Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald approves these seven licenses. I've signed this petition opposing these licenses - will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/no...