Nicholas Fortugno

@nickfortugno.bsky.social

Director of Digital Game Development Program at City College of NY, playmatician, interactive narrative critic at large

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If there have been no other sunshine or rainbows in your day today, you can sleep well tonight knowing that a serial liar, sexual harasser, and opponent of ethical oversight will NOT be the person you are forced to swallow as the Democratic nominee for mayor of NYC. gothamist.com/news/nyc-pri...

Zohran Mamdani set to defeat Cuomo in stunning NYC mayoral primary upset

"He won," Cuomo said about Mamdani, even as the contest headed to a ranked choice count.

gothamist.com

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Let's see. WHO exit, Jan 6 pardons, promise of 25% tariffs to Mexico and Canada, end of tests to reduce drug costs for Medicaire. Yup, as bad as we thought. Part of me wishes I understood why people wanted this but more of me wants nothing to do with anyone who didn't vote to stop this, ever again.

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Because, as we have just demonstrated, millions of Americans are willful idiots who can't absorb an ounce of public policy complexity, why vaccines are important via NYT. The tl;dr version, Google polio. Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines

Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.

nytimes.com

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