A sort of flexible, highly resourced, independently targeted, free-range troubleshooter. I love old & weird things, new & improved things, & sad & funny things.
Brooklyn, NY (originally CLE)
Joined October 2008
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Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
fascinated by the ultimate vision with this stuff. a sociology PhD pumping out 10+ AI-assisted articles a year. for who? well it'll be too much for any other sociologist to read, so you'll have to use AI for that too. machines producing articles just to be read by other machine
The new academic wealth gap isn't your university.
It's not even your advisor's connections.
It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data.
I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis.
Here are the 9 prompts they used:
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
It’s 75 degrees out and nobody is allowed to sit outside on Canal Street to eat/drink. Two years ago there would have been hundreds of people here on a nice day like today.
Huge fail by the Adams administration. Mamdani’s gotta fix this
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
One of those screenshots I think everyone needs to stare at before reading one of those salary articles. I constantly have to mentally adjust to it because I grew up thinking of $70k as the target "good" salary and $100k as wild wealth. But the 70k I used to think of is now 100k.
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
Brother if reading the Epstein files and seeing the world’s richest white men OPENLY PLAN how to kill off the poor and non-white of the world doesn’t convince you to:
- get vaccinated
- wear a mask
- take care of your fellow man and neighbor
- look out for children
You’re lost.
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
I've seen this Lancet article going around recently, and to be honest, I find it horrifying. Imagine a researcher in 1965 looking at the rising tide of lung cancer and declaring: "People are just going to smoke. It’s human nature. Let’s stop talking about prevention and just focus on curing cancer."
If we had adopted that strategy ("The situation is hopeless, focus on treatment") it would have led to the deaths of literally tens of millions of people over the last 50 years. Why? Because medicine still cannot fix the damage smoking causes. We didn't beat lung cancer with chemotherapy; we beat it by taxing tobacco and banning smoking in restaurants.
Yet, this is exactly the strategy we are currently adopting for Long COVID. We are told that mass infection is inevitable, masks are "too hard," and our only hope lies in finding a cure for a complex neuro-immune disease that we have virtually no understanding of whatsoever.
Never in the history of medicine have we successfully dealt with a public health issue by abandoning prevention. A few examples:
1. In the 1950s, highways were slaughterhouses. We didn't solve this by training better trauma surgeons to stitch people back together. We solved it with airbags and seatbelts. If we had relied solely on "better treatments" for car crash victims, the death toll would still be astronomical.
2. When people got sick of condoms, we didn't say, "Oh well, let everyone get AIDS." We continued to encourage them, and also developed PrEP. We didn't abandon the goal of stopping HIV transmission; we just built better tools.
3. We didn't stop Cholera by inventing better rehydration fluids. We cleaned the water. We built sewers. They didn't ask every citizen to "boil their water responsibly"; they engineered the risk out of the system.
Currently, we are accepting the mass disablement of children and adults based on the arrogant assumption that future medicine will be able to "fix" their broken immune systems. But ask anyone with any chronic illness: medicine is terrible at treating it, let alone fixing it.
To bet our children’s futures on a non-existent cure while refusing to implement the one thing that actually works (prevention) is appaling.
For those who think COVID is a hoax or a cold, I can sort of understand not caring about prevention - because at least it is internally consistent. But people who understand the risk and still don't emphasize prevention are either immoral or just haven't thought too deeply about the problem.
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
part of the problem with the united states right now is like 30% of the population genuinely believes that having to show vaccination records at a cheesecake factory to eat inside is literally the exact same as being killed by state police on the street for no reason
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
The highest rate on record.
It staggers me that no-one in public health seems to be acknowledging that immune dysregulation caused by prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely a significant factor in this, and the implications of this concept going forward.
Flu activity is continuing to climb across the U.S. as hospitalizations rise, according to newly released data from the CDC.
The percentage of outpatient visits for respiratory illnesses is now at the highest rate on record. abcnews.link/Z1g0Ai2
And wear a high quality mask (KN95/N95 or better) in public spaces. It's truly so simple.
NY's bad flu season is getting worse.
Last week there were 4,546 hospitalizations—most ever recorded in a single week.
This is happening at time when flu vaccination rates are down.
It's not too late to get your flu vax this season. Find a provider in NYC here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. The tool allows you to filter for sites where there is no cost for the uninsured.
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
How is this not the story of the century that everyone and their dog might have a dysregulated immune system?
Key finding: Post-COVID patients show markedly reduced T cell reactivity to common pathogens (influenza, Staph, VCZ) which is evidence of lasting immune dysregulation favoring secondary infections and viral reactivation
Link:
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
2/5
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
Congress is about to pass the biggest set of censorship and surveillance laws in our lifetime and influencers and the media are silent. It’s pitiful
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
New: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them. propub.li/49r1TQS
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
Calling mask bans “sometimes well-intentioned” while eulogizing a disability rights activist is so evil
Absolutely zero mention of COVID or Gaza in the NYT obituary for @SFdirewolf, just a completely whitewashed version of her legacy. Pitiful nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/al…
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
It’s not weird, people are unwilling to make changes to their lifestyles, individually and collectively. The more urgent the need for lifestyle changes become, the harder ppl will deny reality. It is the same phenomenon as COVID. There is no logic, only desperation for status quo
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
Every couple generations we remove a load bearing rule because the problem no longer exists and find out why the rule existed.
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
a theory of mine is that social media has completely broken the mind of Gen Z and millennials when it comes to work
their whole lives they have been told to pursue college, work really hard at their 9-5 job, go above and beyond for their boss, then save some income to hopefully purchase a home and family one day
all the people who followed this path are now watching their savings crumble away due to inflation. homeownership feels out of reach like never before
then they turn over and look at the 21 year olds making millions of dollars posting content on YouTube and TikTok. they are able to live with freedom, not beholden to a corporation, while also getting paid enough to afford everything they want
people see this and start questioning themselves. money doesn’t feel real in an economy where there is so much bifurcation between the have and have nots
the point of a job becomes meaningless. you fail to find purpose in your life anymore. and while these millionaires are the outliers, their content is the one that shows up in your feed over and over again
it is truly detrimental to society and i’m not sure anyone has a real solution to fix it
Meredith Modzelewski retweeted
Imagine trial and erroring different prompts thousands of times—like pulling the arm of a slot machine hoping to get a decent shot at least once—over and over again… when you could have just paid animators to make exactly what what you want instead.
