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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com
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Interests: http://WebSigCleveland.org, Website Design, Cleveland Web & Tech Events, Technology, Backpacking, Cleveland & Akron Cultural Events, Art, Theatre, Healthy Living

Blogging at: https://sosAssociates.com/

Joined Aug 16, 2023.
1st skeet 9/1/2023.
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New blog post: "60 Years of Psychology Archives and Million Dollar Match Challenge"

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I was so pleased to have participated in the celebration of the 60 years of The University of #Akron Archives of the History of American #Psychology
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Trump's horrible poll numbers reveal that MAGA is finally breaking with their King and Daddy.

@mikemadrid.bsky.social breaks down the latest, disastrous Gallup polling.

Full conversation here: thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Snow doesn't deter you! You guys rock ! We are in solidarity no amazon,target,home depot!
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Black Friday Protest: We Ain’t Buying It
Fri 11/28
Madison Ave & W 117th St, #Cleveland, #Ohio
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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WE AIN’T BUYING IT
NOV 27 ❌ DEC 1
N🚫 #Target N🚫 #HomeDepot N🚫 #Amazon
#Thanksgiving weekend spend w/ intention
Shop Small or Not at All

📲 Take the pledge + get the toolkit. SEE 👀ALT TEXT
weaintbuyingit.com

#WeAintBuyingIt #Boycott #Blackout #EconomicBoycott
#MassBlackout #WeThePeople #ShopLocal
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Futureland Summit hosted at moCa #Cleveland featured Myles (Humble C) Smith.

I enjoyed the music of Humble G Tha Fiddla (@humbleg_HipHope ) at the One World Day 2017. 🎶
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It was great to talk to him and Jalá Smith about their current work at Fusion Foreword.
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I had a great day learning about technology and meeting interesting people at Futureland AI Forward Summit at moCa #Cleveland

www.mocacleveland.org/mocaevents/f...

I have written about other interesting events I have attended at moCa: sosassociates.com/blog-tags/moca
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Great to see Mission Investors Exchange members Gates Foundation and Impact Assets being highlighted as leaders in #philanthropy driven #impactinvesting via AI Invest 🙌

www.ainvest.com/news/investi...

#AI #impinv
Investing with Purpose: The Rise of Philanthropy-Driven Impact Investing in a Socially Conscious Era
Investing with Purpose: The Rise of Philanthropy-Driven Impact Investing in a Socially Conscious Era
www.ainvest.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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All decent Americans must resist the criminal regime in the White House. Do it for patriotism, or do it because it's getting worse and everyone you love will suffer.
You can try to avoid politics, but politics will not avoid you.
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I would argue it was journalists who didn't understand and didn't differentiate & most of the harm is from VCs

LLMs are the language models that people love to hate.

Google Translate and LLMs use the same underlying technology but I never hear how Translate will melt the ice caps or ruin knowledge
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Tech bros ruin everything
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The problem is that thanks to techbros "AI" is now the term that describes everything from perverted teddy bears and chatbots that tell you to kill yourself to actually useful ML applications. People hate the former, and by association they hate "AI"-everything.
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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So data crunching good, making up garbage out of whole cloth bad :)
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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They are good for much—and terrible at much—and for some reason corporations latched on to the latter
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I wrote a paper 10+ yrs ago using LLMs for archaeological looting pit detection. LLMs are generally great for the work I do... been using them for 25 years.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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@bschillace.brandyschillace.com, lot of the presentations weren’t even about AI per se, but just about how to use good data and technology to better serve the community.

Technology in the hands of good people can truly improve lives.

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@clemayorsoffice.bsky.social @justinmbibb.bsky.social says the government must actually do what they say they are going to do

The mayor was reelected & looking to increase using technology

www.mocacleveland.org/mocaevents/f...

Futureland Conference at Museum of Contemporary Art #Cleveland moCa
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.

Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 18h
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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I just want to re-boost, because I’m the ugliness of generative AI, it’s easy to forget that there are legitimate uses that were ethically modeled —and this is one:
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.

Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 18h
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Mark Kelly: "We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified secretary of defense. I cannot think of a secretary of defense in the history of our country that is less qualified than Pete Hegseth. He should've been fired after Signal-gate."
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The owner of this dog says they are planning to attend again the Lyndhurst #TeslaTakedown 🐕

They have great signs.

tockify.com/neohiounited/

 www.teslatakedown.com

actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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And we thought the weather today in London was bad.....

Solidarity from your friends in the UK.

Keep strong!
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November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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This ☕️ machine fights fascism!!

#Coffee for protesters at #TeslaTakedown in Lyndhurst, #Ohio! ☕️

Sat, 11/29/25🇺🇸

#TeslaTakeOver #Tesla Motors
5180 Mayfield Road, Lyndhurst, OH

tockify.com/neohiounited...

 www.teslatakedown.com

actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

#BoycottTesla #MuskMustFall
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Fellow #TeslaTakedownUK people:

We need to invest in a tea urn.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM