Phil Anderson
@philandersonblue.bsky.social
Creative guy from Oregon - writing, music, visual, etc. Also into the great outdoors, trends, tech and AI stuff. Find me here, or at philanderson.com
I got a C- in the only English class that ever mattered to me. Decades later, I still remember nearly every word we read.
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Where Did I Learn to Write?
I'd like to tell you it was in school. But honestly? It was something else entirely—something that lived inside me before I had words for it.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I got a C- in the only English class that ever mattered to me. Decades later, I still remember nearly every word we read.
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I know the Democratic is still quite out of touch, but I didn’t think The Atlantic would write something equally missing the mark. Let me help. apple.news/A15gPtMWxQzq...
October 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I know the Democratic is still quite out of touch, but I didn’t think The Atlantic would write something equally missing the mark. Let me help. apple.news/A15gPtMWxQzq...
Is Portland really burning to the ground? This website has the facts, with webcams across the city (including both downtown and the ICE facility!) Full 24/7 coverage. Watch the mayhem and destruction from the safety of your own home! isportlandburning.com#cameras
Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Is Portland really burning to the ground? This website has the facts, with webcams across the city (including both downtown and the ICE facility!) Full 24/7 coverage. Watch the mayhem and destruction from the safety of your own home! isportlandburning.com#cameras
I hope the troops Trump is sending to “war ravaged Portland” like the rain. apple.news/A8k52_wsFT6S...
September 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I hope the troops Trump is sending to “war ravaged Portland” like the rain. apple.news/A8k52_wsFT6S...
Damn shame about TikTok being sold. It had the best algorithm for reaching real people with similar interests. With it being forced sold to US billionaire capitalists, it will gradually send me increasing content I'm not interested in but they want me to see, and likely more and more ads.
a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling and making a face .
ALT: a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling and making a face .
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September 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Damn shame about TikTok being sold. It had the best algorithm for reaching real people with similar interests. With it being forced sold to US billionaire capitalists, it will gradually send me increasing content I'm not interested in but they want me to see, and likely more and more ads.
Folk ballad about the killing of Charlie Kirk. I wrote most of the lyrics (help from AI when stuck) and used Suno AI to complete the song. Give a listen if you can. If you hate all AI, move on and post somewhere else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTj_...
Charlie & Ty
YouTube video by Phil Anderson
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September 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Folk ballad about the killing of Charlie Kirk. I wrote most of the lyrics (help from AI when stuck) and used Suno AI to complete the song. Give a listen if you can. If you hate all AI, move on and post somewhere else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTj_...
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I'd say the most common response to universal basic income is some variant of "it will just increase prices!" In response, I frequently find myself explaining how it's not that simple, and there are many variables involved. So here's my summary of 17 of those variables to consider.
17 Key Variables That Determine UBI’s Inflationary Impact
Will universal basic income cause inflation? Will the prices of everything rise? I get asked that all the time. Here's the deal about UBI and inflation: it all depends.
Can UBI be inflationary? Sure,...
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July 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I'd say the most common response to universal basic income is some variant of "it will just increase prices!" In response, I frequently find myself explaining how it's not that simple, and there are many variables involved. So here's my summary of 17 of those variables to consider.
In this time of strife, anxiety, and at times hatred, people could learn a lot from history. In this case, the powerful demagogue Father Coughlin. Who was as big in his day as all alt-right (and left) media today combined, bigger than Fox. opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/rad...
Father Coughlin’s Rise is Fueled by Radio, Bigotry, and the Great Depression | Radioactive: The Father Coughlin Story | PBS LearningMedia
Who was Father Charles Coughlin, and what were the conditions that allowed for the rise of the first mass media demagogue? In this resource from the podcast Radioactive: The Father Coughlin Story, stu...
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July 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In this time of strife, anxiety, and at times hatred, people could learn a lot from history. In this case, the powerful demagogue Father Coughlin. Who was as big in his day as all alt-right (and left) media today combined, bigger than Fox. opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/rad...
Step back in time to the mid-1980s with this unique re-imagining of John Tesh's early music for CBS's Tour de France coverage.
Listen for free, here:
youtu.be/yOTmIe5mSC0
Listen for free, here:
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July 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Step back in time to the mid-1980s with this unique re-imagining of John Tesh's early music for CBS's Tour de France coverage.
Listen for free, here:
youtu.be/yOTmIe5mSC0
Listen for free, here:
youtu.be/yOTmIe5mSC0
Here’s what will happen after Medicaid cuts. Hundreds of thousands of people will no longer go to the doctor unless there is an emergency, after which they will go to the ER, and not be able to pay the bills, bankrupting them. This will drive healthcare costs through the roof for everyone else.
June 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Here’s what will happen after Medicaid cuts. Hundreds of thousands of people will no longer go to the doctor unless there is an emergency, after which they will go to the ER, and not be able to pay the bills, bankrupting them. This will drive healthcare costs through the roof for everyone else.
Listen here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
June 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Listen here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
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BREAKING: Lee Jae-myung is projected as the winner of the presidential election in South Korea. For all who don't know, he ran on universal basic income during his previous campaign.
Here's the ep where we discussed the likely possibility he would become the next president and how he might do UBI:
Here's the ep where we discussed the likely possibility he would become the next president and how he might do UBI:
South Korea Could Soon Become the 1st Country with UBI | The Basic Income Show
YouTube video by Scott Santens
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June 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BREAKING: Lee Jae-myung is projected as the winner of the presidential election in South Korea. For all who don't know, he ran on universal basic income during his previous campaign.
Here's the ep where we discussed the likely possibility he would become the next president and how he might do UBI:
Here's the ep where we discussed the likely possibility he would become the next president and how he might do UBI:
Homage video to REI founders Lloyd and Mary Anderson. Pushing the limits of blending traditional video editing, writing, directing, as well as generative AI. About six applications were used to create this in entirety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHm_...
REI 2025 Anniversary Sale
YouTube video by Phil Anderson
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May 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Homage video to REI founders Lloyd and Mary Anderson. Pushing the limits of blending traditional video editing, writing, directing, as well as generative AI. About six applications were used to create this in entirety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHm_...
Before everyone gets all giddy about the US China tariff suspension, let’s not lose sight of the fact that 30% is still a huge amount. It’s still going to have a very large impact on a great deal of consumable goods, and the US and global economies.
May 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Before everyone gets all giddy about the US China tariff suspension, let’s not lose sight of the fact that 30% is still a huge amount. It’s still going to have a very large impact on a great deal of consumable goods, and the US and global economies.
If Trump decides to have a military parade celebrating his birthday/dictatorship, this will be me.
May 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If Trump decides to have a military parade celebrating his birthday/dictatorship, this will be me.
1/2 The Trump admin and MAGA Congress are looking to make work a requirement to attain Medicaid. Do they not realize 63% of all people in nursing homes are covered only by Medicaid? But even if a work requirement is not implemented in such facilities, it remains a large % of the budget...
April 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
1/2 The Trump admin and MAGA Congress are looking to make work a requirement to attain Medicaid. Do they not realize 63% of all people in nursing homes are covered only by Medicaid? But even if a work requirement is not implemented in such facilities, it remains a large % of the budget...
Follow up video to my previous post about DOGE. Here I explain what hiking permits are for, and what DOGE truly wants by firing rangers and gutting funding of public lands, like the USFS and NPS.
April 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Follow up video to my previous post about DOGE. Here I explain what hiking permits are for, and what DOGE truly wants by firing rangers and gutting funding of public lands, like the USFS and NPS.
DOGE at work. (In all honestly, this chronic underfunding was a problem before Elon, who is making this far, far worse.
April 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
DOGE at work. (In all honestly, this chronic underfunding was a problem before Elon, who is making this far, far worse.
The modern job hunt isn’t broken—it’s been reprogrammed. Here’s what’s really happening behind the facade of algorithmic efficiency - and what, if anything, you can do about it.
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April 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The modern job hunt isn’t broken—it’s been reprogrammed. Here’s what’s really happening behind the facade of algorithmic efficiency - and what, if anything, you can do about it.
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Worried about AI flooding the creative markets? Diluting quality? Breaking the law of scarcity?
100 years ago Claude Monet became a renowned painter.
Today you find his paintings on things like disposable plastic dinner plates at Dollar Tree.
There's no going back.
100 years ago Claude Monet became a renowned painter.
Today you find his paintings on things like disposable plastic dinner plates at Dollar Tree.
There's no going back.
April 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Worried about AI flooding the creative markets? Diluting quality? Breaking the law of scarcity?
100 years ago Claude Monet became a renowned painter.
Today you find his paintings on things like disposable plastic dinner plates at Dollar Tree.
There's no going back.
100 years ago Claude Monet became a renowned painter.
Today you find his paintings on things like disposable plastic dinner plates at Dollar Tree.
There's no going back.
Regarding the tariffs and concept that the US companies will bring back manufacturing jobs to the US in the coming years; What's significantly more likely to happen is factories built in the US will be heavily automated, robotics driven by AI, with an increasingly minimal amount of human staff.
April 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Regarding the tariffs and concept that the US companies will bring back manufacturing jobs to the US in the coming years; What's significantly more likely to happen is factories built in the US will be heavily automated, robotics driven by AI, with an increasingly minimal amount of human staff.
Nature clears the mind.
March 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Nature clears the mind.
With a bulletproof glass ceiling above me, I've gone rogue in creating this short video promoting REI's 2025 Member Sale. Enjoy!
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REI Member sale 2025
YouTube video by Phil Anderson
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March 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
With a bulletproof glass ceiling above me, I've gone rogue in creating this short video promoting REI's 2025 Member Sale. Enjoy!
youtu.be/ozqYyBE2bRE?...
youtu.be/ozqYyBE2bRE?...
Chotrul Düchen , the Buddhist day of miracles is today. In Zen, “miracles” are attained wisdom gained from deep meditation, more than perceived empirical events or actions.
March 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Chotrul Düchen , the Buddhist day of miracles is today. In Zen, “miracles” are attained wisdom gained from deep meditation, more than perceived empirical events or actions.