What do you think? Does this make you wanna support this event this year?
more on Zozobra addiction to slop: https://www.505omatic.com/gloomscrolling-the-outrage-at-zozobras-a-i-onslaught/
Blatant, lazy momfluencer payola. Paid canvassing campaigns that will forge your name onto a letter of support. And dangling basic services in front of residents that their city, county, and state are already legally obligated to provide.
This is how Project Jupiter is trying to manufacture support. Because they think we're stupid, desperate suckers.
New Mexico has a long history of being duped into hosting some of the world's most historically evil technological bullshit, then getting left with the expensive devastating environmental and health repercussions.
Not this time.
On Monday June 29th, members of the Santa Fe community, business owners, residents (housed and unhoused), and service providers met for an all day summit at the Convention Center to address the city's homelessness crisis. This summit comes after months of public input through surveys and community conversations, with a goal of developing plans collaboratively.
The Blackstone/PNM deal is nearing decision time! And the PRC is giving you a chance to to speak up at the roundhouse on Thursday July 2nd 10 AM. BUT the rules just changed and they’re prioritizing speakers that email them saying they want to be a speaker. Big yikes cause if you don’t act fast certain interests might stack the deck. Email public.comment@prc.nm.gov and express your intent to comment.
Is it possible to actually stop gentrification? Maybe not. But as Midtown development ramps up, a group of organizations has developed a stabilization plan to protect the Hopewell Mann neighborhood from the potential negative effects of development. MASS Design in partnership with Chainbreaker Collective, the Santa Fe Indigenous Center and Ideas and Action have spent the past year compiling data and input from residents about about issues related to housing, economic development, transportation and public spaces. This plan will soon be going to city council in the hopes that the city will adopt and implement its recommendations.
"Data Centers are Great, Actually" A marketing firm called Xomad is recruiting influencers to astroturf your social feed with positive paid content about data centers. If you see a creator you suspect of being pulled into this campaign, DM us or write us at editor@505omatic.com.
As we celebrate 50 Years of Pride in the Land of Enchantment, we join Dr. PJ Sedillo in his home for a tour of the Pride Archives, 280 panels of local queer history, before their display this weekend as part of Albuquerque Pridefest.
If you haven’t been following the AI drama over at Zozobra‘s official Instagram account, here’s a one stop shop for the entire saga
Blackstone's proposed takeover of PNM just got pushed back by at least a year and might not survive at all.
New Mexico's utility regulator, the PRC, says PNM and Blackstone broke the law last year by doing a $400 million stock transaction tied to this buyout without getting the sign-off from the regulators beforehand.
The commission's examiners want all of these companies fined $100,000 and say the stock deal should never have happened and has no legal standing.
The PRC is calling for all the companies to undo the transaction and ensure customers don't pay a dime. They also have to scrap the entire acquisition application and start from scratch.
With costs rising, ABQ is trying to put more money in workers' pockets with a slight minimum wage increase. City Councilor Tammy Fiebelkorm (District 7) has spent the whole year trying to get it across the finish line and argues (as the only economist on council) that the minimum wage should actually be A LOT higher. After a contentious meeting on Monday, the city council passed the ordinance on a 5-4 vote; now it heads to Mayor Tim Keller's desk for a signature.
Did you know New Mexico primaries are open for any registered voter to participate? You don't have to be affiliated with an official political party to show your support this TUESDAY, JUNE 2nd (or through early voting) for a party candidate the midterm election on Nov 3, 2026.
You can see our interviews with some of the candidates we were able to catch HERE!
After nearly a decade as New Mexico's top election official, Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver is term-limited so she's running for Lt. Governor. We interviewed her a couple weeks before the June 2nd primary. She calls private equity "bad, bad, bad" but isn't ready to back public ownership of PNM the way her opponent is, and she thinks the next governor needs to listen harder to people living below the poverty line, undocumented New Mexicans, and rural communities.
Sen. Harold Pope wants to be a different kind of Lt. Governor for NM. We interviewed Sen. Harold Pope Jr. a couple weeks before the June 2nd primary election to learn more about the issues he's running on and why he thinks fellow Democrats might be changing their stances on Blackstone. Go to 505omatic.com for a full length version of our interview where we dive deeper into Sen. Pope's stance on Project Jupiter, the previous administration's legacy, and how he'd work with the Democratic candidates for governor.
What's going on with Santa Fe's alternative public safety programs? The Mobile Integrated Health Office (MIHO) and the Alternative Response Unit (ARU) are programs that are housed within the fire department, and are intended to provide alternative responses to people needing services like medical care, behavioral health care, housing assistance and addiction treatment. Although the programs have a lot of community support, many people within the fire department have been voicing their opposition to the program, claiming that it diverts resources from other emergency services they feel are more of a priority. Although city officials including the Mayor say that the program is not losing any funding or going away, conversations are being had about the future of the program.
If you want to weigh in, the Public Safety Committee meets Tuesday, May 19th at 4pm at City Hall. You can show up in person or contact your city councilors.
Additional footage provided by Little Globe and the Drug Policy Alliance.
On May 13th 505OMATIC's Devon Ludlow sat down with gubernatorial candidate Sam Bregman to talk Blackstone, deadly police shootings, and his plan to battle the fentanyl crisis. Check it out and vote!
On May 7th 505OMATIC contributor Austin Fisher sat down with gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland to talk Blackstone, private equity, data centers, deadly police shootings, and a state-run public option for healthcare. Since recording we've successfully scheduled an interview with Sam Bregman on Wednesday.
On Monday, May 4th, 505OMATIC joined UFO researcher and What it Means to Be Human podcast host Dan Zetterström on a trip out to Old Horse Springs, NM, to look for the site of the 1947 San Agustin Plains crash. This is supposedly the site described at the beginning of American Cosmic, where Diana Pasulka and Garry Nolan are taken blindfolded by "Tyler D." and use a modified metal detector to pick up some exotic material.
The crash, sometimes referred to as The Gifting Field, allegedly happened two days before Roswell and reportedly involved scattered debris and bodies.
In light of the city of Santa Fe bringing back speed cameras, here’s a throwback to when that older fella in a nightgown blasted the living heck out of an -unoccupied - speed van on Bishop’s Lodge Road. Ah memories...
..Dibs on "Noise Cameras" as a band name
Hidden on a hill in the middle of Albuquerque sits a Norwegian villa built in 1903. It’s been a family home, a commune, a frat house, and since the 1970s, home to the Albuquerque Press Club. We took a tour with assistant manager Kim Schneider and Vice President Scott Stine to talk about the ghost of Clifford “Mrs. M” McCallum, the on-the-record / off-the-record bar rooms, and why local journalists still need a place to meet. We're teaming with APC for our next party on May 23rd, details soon!
This International Workers Day, Friday May 1st, a coalition of organizations across the US are asking all students, workers, and business owners to do no work, no school, and no shopping as a collective action to "fight against the authoritarian billionaire agenda". u/jalexthetechnologist sat down with some local organizers from the New Mexico chapter of Organized Power In Numbers (OPIN) and Organizers in the Land of Enchantment (OLÉ) to talk about the need for solidarity, building towards a general strike, and the history of the worldwide labor movement.