#!/bin/sh

# Get the original RSS feed URL from an Apple Podcast show URL.

podcast="$1"
id=$(echo "$podcast" | awk '{sub(/^.*\/id/, ""); print}')
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=%24id" | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'

There seems to be a bug in Lemmy that messes up the script’s rendering a little, but you’ll figure it out.

Interesting! You extract the ID from the link (e.g. the 1258545975 from https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975) and then:

$ curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1258545975' | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/rss
$

I’m not sure those links will render RSS feeds. I just pulled them from my Apple Podcasts app. None of them are exclusive to Apple, though, so if you’re not in the Apple ecosystem you can still find them.

• Citations Needed
• Behind the News with Doug Henwood
• Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
• Macro N Cheese
• Geopolitical Economy Report
• The Deprogram
• Actually Existing Socialism
• Revolutionary Left Radio
• Guerrilla History
• This Machine Kills
• Tech Won’t Save Us
• Bad Faith
• The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
• QAnon Anonymous
• TrueAnon

Anarchists Not Siding With the Bourgeois Imperial Compradors Challenge (Impossible)

I’ve noticed that they are not all capitalist oligarchies, actually, though most currently are.

We would also like to ultimately abolish the state, though you and I might not mean precisely the same thing by “state.”

Do people really think the US state and its monopoly on violence is going to collapse in the foreseeable future?

The US has been run by oligarchs since its formation as a bourgeois state after its bourgeois revolution (previously). That this is more nakedly obvious this week than last doesn’t really change that fact.

I don’t know, will you ever get tired of US disinformation about Chinese local & federal government’s responses to the CIA-backed terrorist attacks in Xinjiang?

stinky sheets of blurry purple letters

Hey now, the fresh ones smelled pretty good!

Sesame Street taught me phonics.

Not even close.

• The Real Crime Isn’t Shoplifting—It’s Wage Theft
• Wage Theft vs. Other Forms of Theft in the U.S.

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it was only targeting businesses that ship their profits offshore and/or avoid paying local taxes;

This is an oddly specific shoplifting question, almost as if you’re shopping for justifications for a specific concrete action.

Machine learning isn’t my bag, so I couldn’t say. But it’s interesting that currently the best tools are open source, including China’s DeepSeek. Google: “We Have No Moat And Neither Does OpenAI”

If only