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Hi, I’m Dr. Jennifer Guida — scientist, writer, and mom of two under five.

For over a decade, I studied the science of aging, resilience, and what helps people thrive after life’s biggest disruptions, like cancer.

But here’s the thing:

Now I’m the one navigating a life disruption.

I just left my job. I’m raising little kids. I’m questioning who I am without the work title, without the grind, without the constant proving.

So here I am: part scientist, part mother, part woman figuring it out in real t…

Michael Baker's avatar

What happens when judgment is outsourced to a system that cannot weep, repent, or discern the heart?

And what does faithfulness look like in a world where the righteous must live by something more than code?

Habakkuk and the Question of Justice in the Machine Age
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Does anyone else love Little Free Libraries?

They honestly brighten my day whenever I see one.

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DeWine administration tapping Diane Allen for state-level role. Jerome Twp. is taking its message directly to residents regarding fire department funding. And pondering the YMCA's future.

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.

These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.

Read my full letter to my colleagues here:

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I Summarized Mary Meeker's Incredible 340 Page 2025 AI Trends Deck—Here's Mary's Take, My Response, and What You Can Learn
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There are grackles nesting in the soffit above my desk and these robins are getting ready to fly the coop that rests upon a leaning ladder in the rear of @milliondollargarage. I’m glad I didn’t put the ladder away last fall. Be not conformed…unless to nature.

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We launched one of the biggest operations deep into Russia. Dozens of successful strikes. Some targets were 4,000 kilometers away.

But tell me, did you see a single image of a bombed apartment?

A Russian mother screaming in the dust?

A Russian child buried in bricks?

No. Because we don’t hit civilians.

We fight to live, not to destroy.

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Michael Baker's avatar

Habakkuk cried out to God over injustice and was told that judgment would come through an empire even more corrupt than the one he condemned. That warning feels relevant today as we hand more moral decisions to machines.

In this reflection, I wrestle with what it means to seek justice and remain faithful when AI, data, and power now mediate truth and influence outcomes.

Habakkuk and the Question of Justice in the Machine Age

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she wouldn’t be called a genius, she’d be in jail

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Trump’s Vicious Attack on the American Mind
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Inspiration is great! All the time! Everyday!

Or is it?

When Inspiration Hurts

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Huy Nguyen's avatar

Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.

Not dying.

Just logging off.

Getting a job no one cares about.

Growing tomatoes.

Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.

Not as a failure.

But as a kind of freedom.

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Israel just settled it's account with this terrorist mastermind Sinwar who orchestrated the October 7th 2023 invasion; Matti Friedman wrote 'The Hamas leader started this fight. Now Israel can finish
Ned's avatar

The artificial entity known as Israel is finished.

Stephanie S's avatar

Nope. If you believe that, you don’t know God.

Ned's avatar

Go suck one.

His Name Was Shaban al-Dalou

nedpamphilon.substack.c…

Not at all a class act to be ignorant and obscene to a real woman. Actually this pisses me off. Stephanie, I regret the obscenity that has disturbed your gentle existence as a real woman and take it upon myself to apologize for Ned in his ignorance and uncouth disrespect towards who and what you are lovely woman.

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