Adam Bursi
@adambursi
Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc Wrote a book: Edited another: We should improve society somewhat
I don’t know how many remember the “Receptiogate” scandal on Twitter a few years, accusing a Swiss scholar of massive plagiarism (among other things), but a court has ordered her to repay the funding she received for 2 of her grant-funded books, & roasted her www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/05/13/r...
This is essentially the argument Uncommitted made about Harris and they were treated as apostate wreckers for it
This is actually not the worst Religion book cover I’ve ever seen, which was this (preliminary…?) one by Rowman & Littlefield. They changed it eventually because of people [like me] asking about it, but I still can’t believe they were seriously going to use it
Not my field, but it does seem like “analysis” aligned with infinitely continuing market conditions is treated as hard-nosed realism, and anything that suggests things might change is treated as coming from an “ideological” position. Basically this
I had this interaction with one of these people after an extremely mild criticism of Harris
Should’ve just stopped here. Don’t need thus guy’s takes on international conflict
Yeah, not much new here, but maybe, hopefully this will reach some who need to hear it?
I also think it’s the specific loss of WRITING ability, not just reading. WRITING is arguably more radical, and it’s that skill that LLM usage is most (?) chipping away at. Reminds me of the critics of teaching writing in 18th-cent Sunday schools in Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class
They can all (be) move(d) permanently to their man-made island and everyone will be happier fortune.com/2026/02/25/m...
I think David Golumbia nailed some of this in the opening of Cyberlibertarianism
On these people’s insane beliefs about predicting the future with logic and reason etc, check out @davidzmorris.bsky.social’s book