Author Archives: andyjamison

I have often wondered how anybody in their right mind could use Amazon since the behavior of Jeff Bezos, both as businessman and private person has always been particularly disgraceful in regard to just about any criterion of human decency. But what he has done to The Washington Post is downright disgusting. So let meContinue reading “A simple request”

While leaving antisocial media and boycotting AI you might also consider getting a Fairphone. We really don’t have to destroy the world in order to enjoy it. Check it out: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/04/fairphone-6-review-cheaper-repairable-longer-lasting-android

Alison Luthmers has written to say that Friday’s concert with the Bellevue String Quartet and special guests Antoine Torunczyk and Antina Hugosson will be a benefit for Sweden’s oldest environmental organization, The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (Naturskyddsföreningen). https://min-insamling.naturskyddsforeningen.se/en/fundraisers/mozart-and-more-a-benefit-concert-for-naturskyddsforeningen So there’s one more reason to join us on Friday. Check out “Bookstore events” for details.

Hearing Bruce Springsteen’s song brings back memories of a book I once wrote with Ron Eyerman, Music and Social Movements. We argued and tried to show that the interaction of music and social movements in the 20th century, in the 1960s in particular, represented a mobilization of cultural traditions that affected both politics and musicContinue reading “The mobilization of tradition”

I posted an interview with Rebecca Solnit some months back and continue to be impressed and inspired by how well she manages to combine emotion and intelligence in her writing, a fine example of what I once termed a “hybrid imagination”. Here’s her latest piece in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back

Yes, indeed. While the bathroom in the apartment upstairs has been identified as the source of the leakage in the store the ceiling in our art-music-nature etc room has been fixed, dear Liza. Oh, and speaking of Liza, or actually Eliza, here’s a little history lesson about artificial intelligence for all you AI boycotters outContinue reading “The hole is fixed”

Finally! Antisocial media on trial. Could this be the start of something big? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/27/social-media-trial-meta-tiktok-youtube

On Martin Luther King Day let us remember that there once lived among us a man who was truly worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, which has recently become an object of ridicule as the latest prize-winner has tried to give hers away to the conman-in-chief. I had the honor of seeing King speak atContinue reading “A worthy winner”

Amidst all the nonsense and horror stories that fill the media and our heads these days I saw this inspiring piece in the Guardian about a garden of eden that really exists. I will definitely be visiting this place on one of my next trips to Spain. How about one of you out there arrangingContinue reading “Inside the gates of eden”