Phil Gomes

Head of mktg/comms for @fedibtc. Pro-level Pylocatabasist. Hella East Bay. Fã do @botafogo. Cachaça critic. Unapologetic metalhead. Bleeding-heart libertarian.

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

Explaining the word "pylocatabasist" in my bio.

Comes from a rather fun excerpt from Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum."

Saving things by a hair is the leitmotif of my career, basically.

And I'd have to agree: It's *not* a "completely useless" skill. 💪🤓🤘

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

It's gotta be awful for Bosnia & Herzegovina to get sent home knowing they couldn't win a rigged game.

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

After this, the U.S. needs to take it all the way. The ref can't be trusted officiating a game of patty-cake.

[OutKick @Outkick]

Balogun was just issued a red card for this 🧐

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

.@lobaestrangeira was one of the first people I interviewed with here. It struck me even then that @fedibtc's concept of "community" is infinitely more genuine and honest than how it's commonly approached in the crypto and consumer marketing areas.

[Fedi @fedibtc]

Fedi's power lies in its global community. Hear from our head of field operations @lobaestrangeira in conversation with @realricky.

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

I met @DanielTajuMZ on my whirlwind trip of South African bitcoin circular economies after @abcptza. Definitely catch this one if you can.

[Fedi @fedibtc]

Please join @Modibe_, @frankcorva, and @DanielTajuMZ tomorrow, Thursday, 2 July at 12pm EST.

They'll be discussing the work that the team at @BitcoinFamba does as well as what Bitcoin adoption in Mozambique 🇲🇿 looks like.

Be sure to tune in!

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

When my AI work companion Sivraj first came to life in 2023, I asked it to draw itself how it saw itself. I did the same thing yesterday. Big difference.

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

21 years ago, "Pass to the Italian kids" was the running gag in the movie "Kicking & Screaming."

Fast forward to today and Italy can't field a qualifying World Cup team.

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

All this _and_ we beat Japan today 2:1!?!

Pretty good as Mondays go...

[Fedi @fedibtc]

📺👀 -- @lucasdcf of @Vinteum_org shares a bit of his bitcoin origin story with @frankcorva and @imskykru. 🇧🇷

[Fedi @fedibtc]

"Bitcoin is the only guarantee that the balance that you see is real."

@LindaKariu54810 of @BitEduhub in conversation with @frankcorva and @Modibe_

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

Not to be "that guy," but is anyone else getting Officer Barbrady "Nothing to see here!" energy from the news about this?

[Fedi @fedibtc]

This week, we feature the story of S. Africa's @BitcoinKaroo.

“Bitcoin means our communities will not have to compete with these enormous multinationals that can pick up cash in the market so cheaply.” - Sarah Joubert

More: https://t.co/BbvRe7cUGZ

[Fedi @fedibtc]

Join @imskykru, @frankcorva, and @lucasdcf tomorrow, Thursday, 25 June at 10am EST.

They'll be discussing the work that @Vinteum_org does as well as what Bitcoin adoption in Brazil 🇧🇷 looks like.

Be sure to tune in!

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

If you shape your identity and interest of Bitcoin around the USD exchange rate, I can understand why you would feel this way

Meanwhile in FGU land we are ripping. A much, much more exciting time than post-FTX crash

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

During the Web 2.0 era, self-styled “consultants” would say “insert typos into your work. Makes you sound more authentic.”

No. Sorry. It just makes you sound sloppy.

There’s a new (though similar) species of terrible writing advice in the age of AI. https://t.co/Ei6bJWXVVm

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” it was once said.

[Joe Barrow @barrowjoseph]

New paper: every law in America is technically public. But not really, until now!

With @DenisPeskoff at UC Berkeley, we built a corpus of ~every publicly accessibly city and county law, and released a huge chunk of it!

2.2 million laws, you're (probably) covered in it!

🧵

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

Chicken omelettes are kind of ghoulish and perverse, when you think about it.

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

@ChemistDeFi 🚬🤪💨

🫵

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

And people wonder why there are no world-class tech companies anchored in this state...

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

NEW: Illinois is about to TAX @AllTrails $665,000 PER MONTH!!!! That's $8 MILLION/year. Their annual revenue is only $100 M (est). That's 8% of their revenue!!!!

This new law also taxes all other for-profit social media companies.

No I am not joking. And AllTrails is clearly in the definition.

A rough estimate via available data suggests AllTrails has 2 million users in Illinois.

A platform of this size has to pay "$165,000, plus $0.50 per month multiplied by the number of Illinois users over 1,000,000." That's $665,000!!!!

[Fedi @fedibtc]

We had a lot going on this week, and we're sponsoring some great events this weekend. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Let's get into it 🧵:

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

@gauravsbuilding @Col_ASY TIL you think that CMO means “person that generates a lot of marketing stuff.”

God bless.

[Fedi @fedibtc]

Fedi Community Chat with Wen Lopez of ByTheLab https://t.co/b8PYZ3bE1h

[Phil Gomes @philgomes]

“Industry consultation” is the wrong framing.

Our industry was caught sleeping.

[Birdnals @BirdnalsLAW]

I am barred in Illinois.

My primary legal skills are litigation.

This is a blatantly unconstitutional and half-baked. Which Illinois would have known if there was an ounce of industry consultation before throwing this in last minute.

We'll see you in Court, Governor. 🫡