We Love the Internet 2026/45: The Great disintermediation edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Great Disintermediation
• Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

Reference points:

• I reverse engineered tiktok
• Everyone Thinks They Know How to Fix Netflix. The Data Proves They’re All Wrong.
• ‘Ask for what you want’ is a key skill for the 21st century

Longer reads:

• Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominance

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 442 goals
• How many MPs can you remember?
• Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen

Things to look at/read:

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• A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose.
• The Butt Runneth Over
• Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying Something On
• You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
• A ‘tsunami’ of church closings is poised to remake America
• As part of a competition with a few friends, I attempted the very dumb challenge of trying to write the names of 3,000 real people in one sitting

Animal corner:

• Top 10 Dog Halloween Costumes of 2026
• I need a red bull for bedtime routines these days
• Just another perfectly normal day in a cat household
• METAL BUTT PATS

Tweets of the week:

• Assassin’s Creed II (2009)
• the cut from lady diana 2.0 to prince william is cinematic
• If you are new to twitter, I’m going to make this thread full of core canon here. Feel free to add anything I’ve missed
• This looks like a safe place to park.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Getting Rich and Going Broke, One Pack of Sports Cards at a Time
• In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
• What If You Never Cooked Again?
• Losing Beck

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