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Pilatus PC-24 Notes

This is my overview primer and basic study guide for the Pilatus PC-24. It tries to provide general coverage of systems, functionality, and limitations. The information in this primer is sourced from the Pilatus PC-24 FCOM, AFM, QRH, maintenance manual, and FlightSafety Intl. Pilot Training Manual. This is not an official document and does notreflect any official procedures or opinions from any manufacturers, operators, or training providers; It is solely meant to condense about 4,200 pages of m...

Data Without Computing Is Not Decentralization

One of the recurring claims around decentralization, particularly in social networking discourse, is that user data ownership is the primary problem to solve. The argument goes: if users control their data then power asymmetries naturally diminish. And, the argument isn't necessarily wrong, to be fair. The Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) appears to take this idea seriously by design. Through Personal Data Servers (PDSs), users can self-host their identities, posts, and social graphs, and m...

A Historic Political and Economic Analysis of the Fifth Venezuelan Republic

[This article assumes the reader has some basic knowledge of Venezuelan geography and contemporary history/current events (2018).] “Socialism” may not be tearing the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela apart—but it certainly is not a covert “U.S.-led economic war”, either. Ideologues of all camps appear entirely disinterested in anything outside of hyperbolic rhetoric. There are many valid, empirical, and historical reasons why the Venezuelan economy has, after decades of floundering, faltered—agai...

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The iPhone 17 Pro as a Photography Tool

(This blog post is a longer-form edit of this series of posts I've made on Bluesky in this thread: ) The iPhone 17 Pro is the best smartphone I’ve ever owned. More importantly, it’s the first phone I’ve owned that has genuinely replaced my need to carry a dedicated camera for casual photography. Between the hardware, ProRAW, and having Lightroom available directly on iOS, the entire shooting-to-editing workflow is simple, fast, and frictionless in a way that no previous phone ever managed. This ...

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