We asked Gemini 3.5 Flash to bring back the classic early-2000s PC drawing experience, and it delivered in one shot.
What are you building first with Canvas?
Spencer Pratt responds to criticism that he blew money in the mid 2000s:
“Yes, I spent all this money — I was also 22, 23 years old… that’s my money, it wasn’t tax money. This lady Karen Bass just spent $400 million last year of OUR money to ‘house’ 1400 [homeless] people.”
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The collapse coming for the $S&P500, $Nasdaq, and U.S. markets will be historic.
I’m not saying this because I’m bearish.
The data is screaming it.
We are watching one of the biggest bubbles in modern history form in real time, just like the dot-com era of the early 2000s.
Back then, every company added “.com” to their name and investors threw money at anything tied to the “future.”
Today it’s the exact same story with “AI.”
Companies with weak fundamentals are exploding to absurd valuations overnight.
Retail traders are all-in.
Wall Street is drunk on hype.
Everyone suddenly believes stocks only go up.
That’s exactly how bubbles behave before they implode.
The market is being held up by speculation, endless liquidity, and blind euphoria, not reality.
And when this finally unwinds, most people won’t be prepared for how brutal it gets.
Doesn’t this feel painfully familiar?
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NVIDIA has officially retired the GeForce Control Panel after 20 years, ending one of the longest-running software tools in PC gaming.
The company is moving users to the newer NVIDIA App, which combines driver updates, game optimization, DLSS and RTX settings, performance tools, overlays, and display settings into one application.
The old Control Panel will still work for now but is now considered a legacy app and will no longer receive major updates for GeForce users.
For many gamers it has been a familiar part of the Windows experience since the early 2000s.
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I don't think people understand just how bad it will be if an American open source champion doesn't emerge soon and the big labs succeed in creating modern East Indian companies and ban open models on moronic national security grounds.
"If a credible Western open frontier player does not emerge, the consequences cascade quickly.
This is the inverse of the early Internet wave. In the 2000s and 2010s, Western companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft — dominated globally while China carved out its own walled garden.
"The AI version flips that dynamic on its head.
"Without a credible Western open frontier player, the only open models capable of running entire economies are made in China. If U.S. policy further restricts Chinese open-weight access on national-security grounds, the U.S. ends up with two or three closed Cathedrals serving the U.S. market — and the rest of the world picks the AI stack that is free, capable, self-hostable, and not embargoed.
"Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, India, the Middle East.
"Roughly six billion people.
"Chinese open models become the global default by 2030, and the United States ends up technologically isolated from the majority of the world’s AI users.
"We would have done it to ourselves."
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Penny Lane
• 👤 Full Name — Penny Lane
• 🎭 Stage Name — Penny Lane
• 🎂 Date of Birth — January 21, 1983
• 🔥 Age — 43 years (as of 2026)
• 📍 Birthplace — Miami, Florida, USA 🇺🇸
• 🌎 Nationality — American
• 🤍 Ethnicity — Caucasian
• 💼 Profession — Actress & Model
• 🎬 Industry — Adult Entertainment
• 📅 Years Active — 2006 – 2014 (approx.)
• 📏 Height — 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
• ⚖️ Weight — Approx. 55 kg (121 lbs)
• 🌟 Rose to popularity during the late-2000s adult film era
• 📸 Known for her glamorous blonde look and energetic screen presence
• 🎥 Worked with several major studios and appeared in a wide range of productions
• 💻 Built a strong online fanbase during the DVD-to-streaming transition era
• 📰 Featured in promotional shoots, magazine-style content, and exclusive studio projects
• ✨ Considered one of the recognizable performers of the late-2000s generation
• 💰 Estimated Net Worth — Around $1 Million USD (unofficial estimates)
• 💵 Main Income Sources — Film appearances, modeling, promotions, and online content
• 👱 Hair Color — Blonde
• 👀 Eye Color — Blue
• 💃 Body Type — Slim / Curvy
• ❤️ Relationship Status — Not publicly confirmed
• 🕰️ Even after retirement, she remains remembered by fans for her distinctive screen presence and popularity during the late-2000s era.
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WWE top champion Cody Rhodes received a cease and desist letter from Nintendo over the Triforce symbol from The Legend of Zelda on his wrestling boots.
He added the symbol in the late 2000s because it stands for power, courage, and wisdom, which fit his life in wrestling.
On his podcast Rhodes explained that Nintendo’s letter was polite and non-confrontational, requesting removal of the trademarked symbol
He complied by changing his boots but kept his personal Triforce tattoo.
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A Canticle For Leibowitz is a classic early (1959) post-apocalypse novel where an order of monks preserved the last remnants of learning (the memorabilia) after a nuclear exchange turned the remains of society into book and scientist burners.
I first read it in the 80s as a mass market paperback that I somehow lost along the way. Other paperbacks from that time are yellow with age and getting brittle, but still readable.
I read it again in the late 2000s on a first edition Kindle. I eventually migrated to iPads for Kindle reading, but every couple years I would come across an old Kindle in a drawer, charge it up, and check out what I had been reading on it. They eventually stopped working entirely.
I’m just finishing reading a new Folio Society edition, printed on heavy, acid-free archival quality paper. If it doesn’t get soaked or burned, it could still be in good shape for centuries.
The ephemeral nature of digital storage does give me some pause. We can still read Sumerian tablets full of administrative trivia from four thousand years ago, but there are no known copies of some important software products from just fifty years ago.
I am a proud supporter of the Internet Archive!
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Name: Amy Anderssen
Known As: Amy Anderssen
Date of Birth: 4 May 1985 (reported)
Age: 41 (as of 2026)
Birthplace: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Profession: Actress, Model
Industry: Adult Entertainment
Height: ~5 ft 6 in (167 cm)
Weight: ~55 kg
Body Type: Slim/Athletic
Career Highlights:
Entered the adult industry in the mid-2000s
Achievements:
Nominated for several industry awards including AVN and XBIZ
Recognized for her long-standing career and fan following
Net Worth:
Estimated around $1–5 Million
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