PODCAST · technology
Blind Techie Geek Speaks
by Kathleen Ann Masciana
This is a technology podcast for the blind or anyone else that might be interested in technology.You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel for all the latest segments coming soon.https://youtube.com/channel/UCOtlYZd4QEiynKHdiRN9DewHappy listening!
Episodes
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Plato vs. Aristotle: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Virtue
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Plato and Aristotle’s disagreement about practical wisdom and virtue. Discover whether knowing what is good is enough to make someone good, or whether good character requires practice, desire, and sound...
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Aristotle on Continence, Incontinence, Virtue, and Vice
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Aristotle’s distinction between continence, incontinence, virtue, and vice, explaining how self-control, temptation, and moral character shape our choices. #Aristotle #Philosophy #Ethics
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Aristotle: What Does “Being” Really Mean?
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Aristotle’s idea that “being is meant in more than one way.” We look at how a person, their qualities, and their actions exist in different but connected ways—and what it means for something to depend on...
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Aristotle’s “Being as Being”
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Aristotle’s idea of “being as being,” which means studying something simply because it exists. Using the simple example of a tree, she explains that instead of asking how something grows or what it does,...
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Beyond Appearances: Questioning Plato’s Theory of Forms
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Plato’s theory of Forms and asks whether a perfect reality can truly explain our imperfect world. Through the example of a beautiful flower, Kathleen examines the puzzling connection between everyday objects...
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Aristotle’s Predecessors and the Search for Causes
In this episode of The Blind Techie Geek Speaks Podcast, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores why Aristotle believed earlier philosophers misunderstood causality. Discover why explaining reality requires more than asking what something is made of—it also means considering its form, the...
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Virtue Takes Practice: Aristotle on Character
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores why Aristotle compares virtue to a craft: good character develops through practice and repeated choices, rather than being something we are simply born with. #BlindTechieGeekSpeaks #KathleenMasciana…
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Aristotle’s Human Good: Living with Reason and Virtue
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Aristotle’s human good: living well through reason, virtue, and thoughtful choices. Happiness is more than a feeling—it is a way of life. #BlindTechieGeekSpeaks #KathleenMasciana #Aristotle #Philosophy...
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Universals, Form, and How We Know
In this analog audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, Media Philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores universal knowledge, universals, and form. Using Aristotle’s ideas, she explains how individual experiences help us recognize the shared qualities that reveal what things truly are.
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Celebrating International Podcast Day from the Listener's Side
In honor of International Podcast Day (September 30th), Kathleen Masciana, founder of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, is stepping away from the microphone. As a podcaster whose days are filled with producing, hosting, and creating her own content, she rarely has the chance to simply sit back and listen...
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Primary and Secondary Substances: Aristotle Explained
In this audio analog episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explains Aristotle’s difference between primary and secondary substances. Discover how individual things, such as a person or dog, differ from the categories that describe what they are.
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From Universals to Particulars: Thomas Aquinas
In this analog audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Thomas Aquinas’s explanation of how we move from broad ideas, or universals, to specific things, or particulars. Learn how a general understanding becomes clearer through examples and careful...
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Unmoved, Unchanged: Aristotle’s First Mover
In this analog audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Aristotle’s First Mover. Learn why it must be unmoved, without parts, and fully actual—and how it explains motion and change in the world.
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Aristotle on Self-Motion
In this analog audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores what Aristotle means by being self-moving. Aristotle argues that living things can begin motion from within, but he also explains that one part causes the movement while another part is moved....
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Zeno, Motion, Infinity, and Reality
In this audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox and its challenge to our understanding of motion. Zeno asks how a journey can be completed if it contains infinitely many smaller intervals. This episode examines the themes of...
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Truth, Education, and Society
In this audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana examines Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and its enduring insights into truth, education, critical reflection, and the civic responsibility to help build a more informed and just society. #Philosophy #Plato
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Why Must Whatever Is Movable Be Divisible? Blind Techie Geek Speaks
In this audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explains Aristotle’s idea that whatever is movable must be divisible. Using the simple example of walking across a room, she explores how motion happens through divisible parts of distance and time—and invites...
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What Is Motion? Aristotle on Change, Growth, and Becoming
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Aristotle’s powerful idea of motion and why it means much more than simply walking across a room or driving somewhere. Aristotle understood motion as every kind of change, including growing, learning…
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Aristotle and the Infinite
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Aristotle’s view of the infinite and explains why he believed infinity is potential rather than a completed reality. #Aristotle #Philosophy
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Plato, AI, and the Future of Learning
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana connects Plato’s Republic, Books 5 and 6, to questions about justice, equality, family, truth, leadership, philosophy, and education. She discusses an ABC7 New York report on New York City’s one-year moratorium on...
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Healthy City vs. Feverish City: Plato’s Path to Kallipolis
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, media philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Plato’s contrast between the healthy city and the unhealthy, or “feverish,” city in The Republic. She explains how a simple city based on necessities changes when people begin seeking luxury, leading to...
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Justice and Power in Plato’s Republic
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Plato’s Republic and Thrasymachus’s claim that justice is the advantage of the stronger. The episode explains why power does not automatically make an action morally right and why Socrates argues that true justice...
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What Is Nature? Necessity, Purpose, and Philosophy
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores the philosophical meaning of nature and whether nature acts out of necessity. Drawing on the ideas of Aristotle and Baruch Spinoza, the episode looks at natural change, purpose, cause, freedom, and the order of…
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Aristotle’s Four Causes
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores Aristotle’s material, formal, efficient, and final causes through the examples of a wooden chair and an oak tree. Discover how his approach helps explain what things are made of, how they come to be, and what they...
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Are Plato’s Immortality Arguments One Case or Several?
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, philosopher Kathleen Masciana explores whether Plato’s arguments for the soul’s immortality in the Phaedo form one larger philosophical case or several distinct attempts at persuasion. The episode connects Plato’s cyclical, recollection, affinity, and...
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Socrates, Technology, and the Examined Life
Tune in to this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, philosopher Kathleen Masciana examines Socrates’s call to live thoughtfully through self-examination, wisdom, and self-control. Drawing on Plato’s Phaedo and the New York Post article “Meet the Parents Banning All Screen Time—even the News—to...
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Plato, Freedom, and the Choices That Shape Us
Tune in for an episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, where philosopher Kathleen Masciana considers Plato’s enduring questions about what it means to live well, direct one’s desires through reason, and develop judgment. Listeners can expect a focused discussion of self-sufficiency, freedom,...
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Live Podcast: Glory Days diner in Greenwich Connecticut Review
Live Podcast: Glory Days diner in Greenwich Connecticut review https://youtube.com/shorts/DkDUnpq6Hc4?feature=share
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Live Podcast: Philosophy and Everyday Questions
In this live episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, recorded at Sandy Beach in Swansea Massachusetts, host Kathleen Masciana discusses how philosophical thinking can influence education, communication, media, culture, and everyday life. She explains how people search for knowledge, truth, meaning,...
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Live Podcast: Technology, Accessibility, and the Examined Life Heading
In this live episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, recorded at Sandy Beach in Swansea, Massachusetts, host Kathleen Masciana presents a philosophical reflection on Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. She examines Greg Heffley’s cross-country family trip to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of...
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Live Podcast: Back to School, Screen Time, and the Good Life
In this live audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, recorded at Sandy Beach in Swansea Massachusetts, host Kathleen Masciana offers a thoughtful reflection on the transition from summer to the back-to-school season. The episode explores screen time, family routines, personal responsibility…
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Justice, Screen-Free Reflection, and Accessible Learning
Join Kathleen Masciana for a new episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, where she brings together a screen-free Saturday, accessible online graduate study, and Plato’s Republic, Books I and II. Kathleen reflects on time spent with family, listening to an old-school radio, writing with a Braille...
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Live Podcast: Chili’s Grill & Bar in Somers New York review
Live Podcast: Chili’s Grill & Bar in Somers New York review
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B.T.G.S. Radio Spotlight: Music, Philosophy, and the Good Life
B.T.G.S. Radio, today’s hottest and coolest new-music station, presents a commercial-free program where music, culture, and philosophical ideas come together on Stationhead. Hosted by Kathleen Masciana, this special broadcast explores Halsey’s song “Graveyard” through the themes of autonomy…
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Live podcast: Southport diner in Southport Connecticut review
Live podcast: Southport diner in Southport Connecticut review
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Live podcast
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Live Podcast — Natural Law, Tradition, and Method in Philosophy
In this audio live episode, host Kathleen Masciana explores the philosophical question: Is new natural law really a different sort of thing, and are the integralists right to see this new method as a betrayal of the old method? Drawing from her experience operating an internet radio station and…
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Moral Knowledge and the Digital Divide
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, host Kathleen Masciana bridges ancient philosophy with contemporary parenting debates about technology. Kathleen guides listeners through a thoughtful exploration of whether true moral knowledge is possible without the metaphysical frameworks of Plato,...
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iOS 27 Recovery Mode: Screens, Self-Control
In this audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, Kathleen Masciana explores how children react when screens are taken away, how Aristotle’s idea of akrasia helps explain those reactions, and how a screen-free family vacation connects to bigger questions about technology and self-control.
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iOS 27 Screen Time, Time Allowances, Ask to Browse, and Siri
In this audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, host Kathleen Masciana discusses iOS 27, her experience as an Apple developer beta tester, and the ideas of Aquinas, Aristotle, and Oderberg. The episode focuses on Screen Time, Time Allowances, Ask to Browse, Siri, ethics, practical wisdom, and...
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Can Character Save Generation Z from the Attention Crisis?
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, host Kathleen Masciana explores the clash between Kant's moral philosophy and Aristotle's Virtue Ethics. She examines whether building character is the key to addressing the impact of technology on attention spans. The episode features social...
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Natural Law in the Digital Age — Toy Story 5, Screens, and the Search for Balance
In this audio episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, host Kathleen Masciana takes on a question that reaches far beyond the philosophy classroom: Is natural law dead in the water, or do we still have both a moral epistemology and a moral ontology to ground it? Kathleen brings this age-old...
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Grandpa’s diner in Danbury, Connecticut Review
I went to grandpa’s diner in Danbury Connecticut for the very first time. The food was good. However, the waiter overcharged us and he did not want to rectify the amount because he did not know how to use the computer. In the end he did reimbursed us because we complained. I would give grandpa’s...
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Knowledge Beyond Definitions: When Technology Becomes Essential Access - Audio Only
In this episode of Blind Techie Geek Speaks, host Kathleen Masciana, an online philosophy graduate student at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, explores the Digital Opt-Out movement and LAUSD's strict new screen time policies through the lens of disability access. Kathleen examines how…
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Wendy’s review
Wendy’s review
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Carvel review
Carvel review
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Wendy’s review
Wendy’s review
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Forno Trattoria in Mohegan Lake New York review
Forno Trattoria in Mohegan Lake New York review
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Ban Social Media for Youth Under 16 in New York State to Protect Mental Health
As a blind Generation Z graduate student, I waited until I was 19 to join social media. That choice gave me the chance to build genuine friendships, grow my confidence, and truly discover myself without the pressure of likes, trends, or constant comparison. Seeing how many kids today struggle…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is a technology podcast for the blind or anyone else that might be interested in technology.You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel for all the latest segments coming soon.https://youtube.com/channel/UCOtlYZd4QEiynKHdiRN9DewHappy listening!
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Kathleen Ann Masciana
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What is Blind Techie Geek Speaks about?
This is a technology podcast for the blind or anyone else that might be interested in technology.You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel for all the latest segments coming soon.https://youtube.com/channel/UCOtlYZd4QEiynKHdiRN9DewHappy listening!
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Blind Techie Geek Speaks is created and hosted by Kathleen Ann Masciana.
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