Disney
Expedition Everest drops Single Rider. Disney found another way to fill the seat.
Disney closed the Single Rider line at Expedition Everest on Monday, September 21, after a final day on Sunday, September…
Writer
Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld
Editor in chief. A knack for the fine print.
Todd Ruffner-Schoenfeld has spent his working life being handed things he did not yet understand. He started at the bottom, a developer in a bullpen, and worked his way up to running IT. The places were a strange assortment: consulting firms, accounting firms, a biotech startup, a tech startup in Silicon Valley and, of all places, Chiquita. Four small businesses of his own along the way. The work never really changed. Get into something unfamiliar, find out what is actually going on, and help someone make a hard decision with it. HeadLines Decoded is that job, pointed at the news.
Selected work
Disney
Expedition Everest drops Single Rider. Disney found another way to fill the seat.
Disney closed the Single Rider line at Expedition Everest on Monday, September 21, after a final day on Sunday, September…
Politics
Three governments announced a Greenland deal. Only one calls it control.
President Trump says the agreement hands the United States permanent control over security in Greenland, forever and at no cost.…
Society
Love, Victor was a lighthouse on a winter night
My husband and I loved Love, Simon. Love, Victor let us sit longer with a boy who was still figuring…
Culture
I forgot how funny Only Murders in the Building is
I went back and rewatched all five seasons of Only Murders in the Building before season six, and I laughed…
Series Parts
What the AI makes of the data center boom
The closing part of the series pairs the figures on bills, water and jobs with an AI's own opinions, quoted…
Politics
The Kennedy Center has a water problem and a half-empty house. Tuesday’s vote treats them as one.
In February 2025 President Trump removed most of the Kennedy Center's board and had the rest elect him chairman. Ticket…
Series Parts
Build the data centers. Just not in the living room.
An opinion. The data centers are necessary, and a necessary thing can still be a bad neighbor. Plan the slab,…
Series Parts
The data center scorecard for Tuesday night
Ten questions to take to any data center hearing. A developer who cannot answer them in writing has only a…
Culture
The Year of Maxxing
I thought the word was only about faces and gyms. Then I found fibermaxxing, hobbymaxxing, sleepmaxxing, and people going all-in…