An award-winning adult film star has died at just 35 years old after battling Crohn’s disease and suffering a life-threatening infection.
Raven Alexis died last Wednesday in , her husband confirmed in videos posted to and one day later.
He said she was brought to a local hospital on March 20 ‘with some complications and some stomach Crohn’s/colitis issues she had dealt with.’
Crohn’s is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and irritation in the digestive track. The most common form affects the small intestines and the beginning part of the large intestines, according to the
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‘It was a great ride, and they have a terrific business model for themselves, and I was fortunate to make some amazing and wonderfully selling movies in my time with them.’
But Alexis continued to see success even after she parted ways with Digital Playhouse, going on to star in a string of high-profile projects like Exile Pictures’ The Graduate XXX: A Paul Thomas Parody, Third Degree Films’ The Official Revenge of the Nerds Parody and Axel Braun’s This Ain’t Ghostbusters XXX3D for Hustler Video.
In 2011, she was nominated for an award in the Best New Starlet category at the AVN Awards and won a pair of trophies for her scene in the Digital Playhouse film Body Heat with Riley Steele, Jesse Jane, Katsuni and Kayden Kross – the Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene and the Fan Award for Wildest Sex Scene.
She was famously seen at the awards show in a red leather dress with crutches, after she said she climbed onto a shelf to grab something high up in her house and injured her hip.
That same year, Alexis also appeared on the Adult Swim show Children’s Hospital as the ‘Porno Nurse.’
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But soon Alexis became embroiled in controversy, after telling Jon Lieberman on Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show that she had been diagnosed with stage four liver cancer.
She said in the September 2011 episode that the cancer had spread to her brain and claimed, ‘Chemo is hard … not eating is really hard.’
Shortly after the episode aired, though, her boyfriend at the time contradicted her claims she had cancedied alone in her apartment after doing ketamine and was ‘unrecognizable’ when police found her four days later.
Her mother Stephanie told DailyMail.com that she reported her missing on March 15 after not hearing from her for several days.
She is believed to have died on the 11th – the last time anyone heard from her.
Stephanie Montalbano said that while an official cause of death has not yet been provided, her daughter had been doing ketamine the night she died and that she believes she died from a ‘bad batch’ of the drug.
She was alone and her apartment was locked when police found her body next to drug paraphernalia.
Angelina dabbled in ‘party drugs’ like cocaine and ketamine, her mother explained, adding that while she did not approve of her drug use, bokep jilbab she wanted to know about it.
The family has now raised more than $20,000 on GoFundMe to bring Francesca’s body back to Chicago, where she grew up, for burial.
NFTs are confounding at the best of times, as people spending five figures on profile picture art is never easy to comprehend. Still, most successful nonfungible token collections have a coherent logic to them. The crypto-rich drop six figures on because it has historical value as the first ever NFT collection. They spend even more on because it’s become a brand big enough for the likes of and to work with. But even if you consider yourself open-minded when it comes to NFTs, you may have a hard time accepting “.”
Like the popular collections mentioned above, mfers is a set of roughly 10,000 NFTs (10,021 to be precise). Each artwork in the collection is a stick figure wearing headphones typing on an out-of-frame keyboard. Since launching on Nov. 30, over $110 million worth of mfers have been bought and sold by NFT traders, more than most Hollywood movies make in box office sales.
If you want to get your hands on one, the cheapest mfer listed on NFT marketplace OpenSea is 3.97 ether. That’s a few bucks short of $14,000.
Even when you factor in the — dropping 3 ether on a funny jpeg is easier if you bought ether at $40 instead of $4,000 — the success of mfers is unusual. Dozens of NFT projects are launched every day. Many are scams, more are money grabs and most of the ones attempting to be legitimate fail quickly. A tiny fraction reach the heights mfers has achieved in the past four months. It’s ranked 44 on OpenSea’s chart for all-time volume.
And it’s preposterous. Mfers is everything people hate about NFTs: simple art being sold for insultingly high prices. Like many success stories in the cryptosphere, however, it’s more complicated.
Underlying mfers’ meme art is, hilariously, an argument about intellectual property. It’s one of a few “” NFT collections, which means it’s in the public domain. Its creator doesn’t own the imagery, and people are free to use the mfer brand for whatever they choose. The idea is that mfer owners will profit if the mfer brand grows, even if no one owns the copyright for it. In essence, it’s an experiment to see if it’s possible to completely crowdsource brand building.
There are 10,021 mfers, each with slightly different traits. Here are 10 of them as seen on NFT marketplace OpenSea.
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The collection was created by a popular personality who goes by Sartoshi, an amalgamation of “art” and Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto. It was inspired by the meme, which according to Know Your Meme centers on a dad walking in on his son playing a VR hentai porn game. Sartoshi drew a stick-figure slouched on a desk chair, cigarette dangling from its mouth as he taps away on a keyboard, in the same style as the meme. Before it was an NFT collection, he used it as his profile picture on Twitter, where he now has over 160,000 followers.
“I do some painting and ‘real’ art myself and the idea was never to make a Mona Lisa here,” Sartoshi told me via Twitter DMs. Like most people in the Web3 world, he asked to stay anonymous. “The idea was to make a cool sketch-feeling NFT that people could identify with… and to free the copyright over the art to see what the universe decided to do with it.”
The collection dripped with internet meme culture from the beginning. Launching on Nov. 30, the public sale began at 4:20 p.m. with a price set to 0.069 ether ($230) per mfer. All 10,000 sold out instantly thanks in large part to Sartoshi’s following.
As commonly happens in the NFT market though, mfers had a day or two in the spotlight and then faded away as that shine moved on to the next attention-grabbing project. By the end of December, sales slowed down and the floor price (the cheapest someone had listed on the marketplace) fell to 0.05 ether, below the public sale price. Mfers began to recover in January and then exploded in February. Once momentum started to build — NFT collections largely sell based on hype, so momentum is particularly powerful — buyers flocked in, pushing the floor price as high as 6 ether ($18,000). Like all collections, mfers have different traits that make some rarer than others: One trader dropped 80 ether, a whopping $270,000, on .
The floor price has since balanced out at between 2.5 and 4 ether. That doesn’t yet make mfers a “blue chip” NFT, which typically refers to a handful of collections that can sustain a floor price of over 10 ether, but it does make mfers significantly more successful than 99% of collections.
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4/ I like the fact that the mfer community is so active in creating derivatives using the CC0 (public domain) license of the mfers.
Some colleagues/friends worry that CC0 is not great for PFPs.
I am not sure they are right. In any case, it is an experiment we must run.
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Sartoshi thinks mfers was able to stand out by eschewing the hype that accompanies most NFT launches. With stick-figure drawings, no one could pretend that the art was revolutionary, as many NFT creators breathlessly claim their collection’s art to be.
“Most NFT collections have art that is quite basic,” Sartoshi said, “but all these people spend money on them and all of a sudden they’re falling over at their desk saying, ‘omg the art is amazing.” I always joked that a lot of it is basically cereal box characters.”
As with , the silliness of it all was a major appeal, spreading through NFT circles like a good meme goes viral on Twitter. Yet the success of the collection can equally be chalked up to its approach to intellectual property — a sentence that feels absurd to write. That Sartoshi made mfers a public domain collection makes it unusual. Some creators, like CryptoPunks’ Larva Labs, reserve the rights to all of the collection’s IP. Others, like Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Yuga Labs, give rights only to owners, and even then only to the specific NFT they own. (Yuga Labs last month bought CryptoPunks from Larva Labs and said it will extend the same copyrights to CryptoPunks holders as the ones afforded to Bored Ape Yacht Club owners. That one company could buy the IP for another NFT collection is another argument some make in the favor of CC0 collections like mfers, which can’t be purchased in the same way.)
“Instead of just the rails that the NFTs run on being decentralized, you extend that to the NFT,” explains Giancarlo Chuax, a former stock analyst who now runs a YouTube channel analyzing NFTs. “Compare that to a Bored Ape Yacht Club, where you have a centralized figure that controls the brand. CC0 [public domain] projects don’t have that. Anybody can take the brand in any direction they want, and some feel that’s truer to what the internet is about.”
In an industry where people really care about decentralization, it’s an idea that mfers have clung to — even if they acknowledge, as a few did during a Twitter Spaces I was invited to join, that it may end in chaotic failure.
Sartoshi has taken a completely hands-off approach, endorsing the community from afar rather than actively participating, much less leading it. Holders of mfers have busily set out to build the brand, often using their 9-to-5 skills to do so. Several have designed and produced merchandise. One of the community mods, MasterChanX, runs MferRadio, an online radio station that among other programming hosts a Shark Tank-style show appraising ideas for mfers derivative collections like . One holder, Richard Chiu, has experience acting and producing in Hollywood — and so is creating an mfer movie. Someone even paid out of their pocket to put mfers in Times Square.
“The statistical odds [of success] are higher when you have unlimited creation happening,” one holder said to me.
A teaser trailer for an mfer movie.
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As frivolous as mfers looks, Chaux says collections like it could significantly change how people consider intellectual property. “The idea of something coming from the ground up, bubbling up organically without the traditional incentive of owning the copyright to that imagery, [would be] pretty revolutionary,” argues Chaux. “There are some interesting examples that have done well, Cryptoadz, Nouns, mfers, but they’re all fairly new. This experiment at most is a few months old.”
Sartoshi has himself speculated that the combination of NFT technology and public domain IP could be powerful, but to him that’s not the main appeal of mfers.
“What’s the utility? Well, you can build whatever you want with them. But at the same time I’d also ask what’s the utility of a Mickey Mantle rookie card?” he said, referencing a baseball card .
“Answer: They are fucking sweet. I think some might also say mfers are pretty fucking sweet.”
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President slammed senators on Friday for the ‘vile’ abuse he said they heaped on Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearings.
He appeared alongside the newest justice on the south lawn of the White House for a celebration of the historic vote a day earlier to elevate the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
The sun shone and the Marine band played show tunes and pop songs before Biden used the setting to blast his opponents in the .
‘I knew it wouldn’t be easy but I knew the person I nominated would be put through a painful and difficult confirmation process,’ he said.
‘But I have to tell you, what Judge Jackson was put through was well beyond that.
‘There was verbal abuse, the anger, the constant interruptions, the most vile, baseless assertions and accusations.
‘In the face of it all Judge Jackson showed the incredible character and integrity she possesses.’
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President Joe Biden appeared on Friday alongside Vice President Kamala Harris to celebrate the arrival of Ketanji Brown Jackson (left) on the Supreme Court of the United States
The event was billed as a celebration by a White House and Democratic party that has been thin on victories recently.But Biden used it to attack Republican senators
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s husband Dr.Patrick Jackson and daughter Leila Jackson arrive on the South Lawn for the event on Friday to celebrate her appointment to the Supreme Court
Hundreds of guests stood and applauded the first black, female justice on the Supreme Court
COVID-19 has laid law much of Washington’s political elite this week, but it didn’t stop Biden hugging Jackson, the first black, female justice on the Supreme Court
The crowd gathered as Biden and Vice President Harris celebrated Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court
Jackson, 51, bokep indonesia a federal appellate judge, was confirmed to the lifetime post by the Senate on Thursday on a 53-47 vote in a milestone for the United States and a political victory for the Democratic president.
She will replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, 83.
But to get there she had to face hours of grilling by Republican senators who attacked her record as a public defender and as judge on her sentencing.
This week Sen. Tom Cotton suggested that she would have defended Nazis.
‘The last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis,’ he said on Tuesday, as the Senate debated her nomination, referring to Justice Robert H Jackson, who was chief counsel in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals.
‘This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them.’
Sen. Josh Hawley led the Republican charge with a Twitter thread that previewed his line of questioning during the hearings.
He claimed that Jackson had a history of letting ‘child porn offenders off the hook’ in the courtroom and in her legal opinions.
Republicans also ridiculed her when she steered clear of a trap when she was asked if she could define the word “woman.’
‘No, I can’t,’ she declared, before adding: ‘I’m not a biologist’.
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Biden, wearing his trademark aviators, said: ‘I knew it wouldn’t be easy but I knew the person I nominated would be put through a painful and difficult confirmation process’
The trio all applauded as they approached the stage for the speech on Friday
Kamala Harris said: ‘Judge Jackson, you will inspire generations of leaders.They will watch your confirmation hearings and read your decisions in the years to come.’
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to define the word ‘woman’ during the second day of her confirmation hearing conducted by the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee
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But for most of the event the mood was lighter.
‘We’re going to look back and see this is a moment of real change in American history,’ Biden said during his more celebratory remarks.
He also praised the three Republican senators who broke ranks to vote with Democrats: Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney.
And he laid out his definition of America as the land of possibilities.
‘That’s why we’re viewed as the ugly Americans – we think anything’s possible.
‘That idea that a young girl who was dissuaded from even thinking you should apply to Harvard Law School…’ could make it to the Supreme Court, he said, bore out the idea that anything was possible.
He stood in front of the south portico, which was decked out in flags.
Several hundred guests stood and cheered as Biden and his guest of honor arrived.
‘It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States,’ said Jackson.
‘But we’ve made it.We’ve made it … all of us, all of us.
‘And our children are telling me that they see now more than ever that here in America, anything is possible.’
She thanked the Democratic ‘sherpas’ who guided her through the confirmation process, as well as colleagues and family who helped her legal career.
‘I strongly believe that this is a moment in which all Americans can take great pride,’ she said.
‘We have come a long way toward perfecting our union.
‘In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.’
The outdoor setting was in part a safety measure against COVID-19 which has cut a swath through the Washington elite during the past week, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said a day earlier.
President Biden watched the vote tally come in with Jackson in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday afternoon
Democrats broke out into raucous applause after Jackson was confirmed.Sen. Mitt Romney is seen above applauding alone on the Republican side – he was one of only three GOP senators to vote for Jackson’s confirmation
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‘This is a tremendously historic day in the White House and in the country, and this is a fulfillment of a promise the president made to the country,’ said White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
In nominating Jackson, Biden delivered on a campaign promise to select the first black woman to serve on a court filled almost exclusively by white men for almost two centuries.
He also chose an attorney who will be the high court’s first former public defender — with the elite legal background of other justices as well.She has degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law School and held top clerkships, including for Breyer himself.
Jackson’s arrival on the bench won’t change the 6-3 conservative majority. But it comes with political and historic resonance.
Biden nominated her on the second anniversary of his pledge ahead of the South Carolina presidential primary to select a Black woman for the court.The move helped resurrect his flailing campaign and preserved his pathway to the White House.
‘We’ve taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America,’ Biden said in a tweet Thursday after posing for a selfie with the justice-in-waiting.’She will be an incredible Justice, and I was honored to share this moment with her.’
