This is the manifesto of ubuweb (ubu.com), one of the longest running and complete collections of underground videos, sounds, and poetry. It has survived for over 30 years of many attempts at takedowns.
From the book Duchamp is my Lawyer, which I would recommend.
1. Keep it simple and avoid constant technology updates. Ubu is plain html, written in a text editor.
2. Even a website should function offline. One should be able to take the hard disk and run. Avoid the cloud -- computers of people you don't know and who don't care who you are.
3. Don't ask for permission. You would have to wait forever, turning yourself into an accountant and a lawyer.
4. Don't promise anything. Do it the way you like it.
5. You don't need search engines. Rely on word-of-mouth and direct linking to slowly build your public. You don't need complicated protocols, digital currencies, or other proxies.
6. Everything is temporary, even after twenty years. Servers crash, disks die, life changes and shit happens. Care and redundancy are the only path to longevity.
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A low-fi audiozine that puts the punk back in cypherpunk.
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Bootlegs!!


Love this description. "Folk Law."


This. Book.


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I have found the Bible for V4V. I'm going to have to do a proper book review of this. This book is dripping with goodness.


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This book hits so hard. I'm on page 29 and I'm running out of ink.
Duchamp is My Lawyer, is the title.


If I can buy an ad your podcast, you are the media.
I think with all the ads in podcasts that people don't seem to mind, we should add them into audio books.
I want to be listening to Vineland by Thomas Pynchon and get an ad for a hardware wallet.
In 1986, there were conferences like TCP/IP trade wars. People were all hot and sweaty about TCP. It revolutionized networked communication. But no one talks about it now even though this note was brought to you by TCP.
But honestly, I can't wait until the part where we stop talking about nostr. The coked up parties about TCP/IP were probably better than the nostr parties are now anyway.
Pretty nice tapey ambient album here.
Also, I kinda dig these paper sleeves. The jcards are easier for me to make, I wonder what kind of adhesive is needed for these to stay together. But I might try it eventually.

