www.grokipedia.com

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This has been very low hanging fruit ever since LLMs were developed that nobody has had the ambition to attempt until now

If he sees this through it could potentially be one of his most successful and impactful endeavors and be extremely profitable too not flame

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Michael Madsen popped in my head so I compared the two -- it's basically just a rephrased copy. even has the same section layout

if wikipedia fights back and forces them to use bootstraps instead of cribbing homework (if such a thing is even possible, which it's realistically probably not), smells like model collapse waiting to happen to me

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Critics, often from ideologically aligned institutions, have highlighted perceived authoritarian tendencies and media influence, yet empirical measures of democratic backsliding remain contested, with Modi's governments securing repeated mandates through direct elections.

A defining controversy from his Gujarat tenure involves the 2002 riots following the Godhra train burning, which resulted in over a thousand deaths, predominantly Muslim; Modi faced allegations of complicity or inaction, but a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) granted him a clean chit in 2012, a verdict upheld by the court in 2022, dismissing claims of a larger conspiracy as unsubstantiated despite persistent narratives in segments of the media and opposition.

Modi in Wikipedia:

Under Modi's tenure, India has experienced democratic backsliding and has shifted towards an authoritarian style of government, with a cult of personality centred around him.[f]

His administration is considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots[c] and has been criticised for its management of the crisis.

While his policies as chief minister were credited for encouraging economic growth, his administration was criticised for failing to significantly improve health, poverty and education indices in the state.[e]

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Grok:

More contentious revelations emerged from FBI archival summaries examined by historian David Garrow in 2019, alleging King's complicity in a January 6, 1964, Washington, D.C., hotel suite incident where a woman was sexually assaulted by Logan Kearse, a Baltimore pastor, while King and others reportedly watched and laughed without intervening.[47] [51] These claims derive from typed summaries prepared by FBI agents, not verbatim transcripts or the original audio, which remain sealed by court order until 2027 due to privacy concerns.[131] Critics, including some King scholars, caution against accepting the summaries at face value given the FBI's documented animus toward King—rooted in J. Edgar Hoover's personal vendetta—and the lack of independent corroboration for the most extreme assertions, though Garrow argues the bureau's meticulous documentation lends credibility to the sexual misconduct patterns.[51] [131] Subsequent releases of FBI records in July 2025, including wiretap transcripts, reaffirmed the extent of the surveillance but did not introduce verified new details beyond previously known infidelity evidence.[132]

The tapes' contents highlight tensions between King's moral advocacy and private behavior, with no evidence they influenced his public effectiveness, as the FBI's smear efforts failed to sway media or public opinion at the time.[48] While the surveillance violated King's privacy and exceeded legal bounds—later deemed unconstitutional by courts—the empirical record from the recordings substantiates a double life inconsistent with his preached standards of personal rectitude.[122]

Wiki:

In 1977, district court judge John Lewis Smith Jr. ordered the recorded audiotapes and written transcripts resulting from the FBI's electronic surveillance of King between 1963-68 to be sealed from public access in the National Archives until 2027.[444] In 2019, an FBI file emerged on which a handwritten note alleged that King "looked on, laughed and offered advice" as one of his friends raped a woman. Historians who have examined this notional evidence have dismissed it as highly unreliable.[445][446] David Garrow, a King biographer, wrote that "the suggestion ... that he either actively tolerated or personally employed violence against any woman, even while drunk, poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible".[447][446] Garrow's reliance on a handwritten note appended to a typed report is considered poor scholarship by other authorities. The professor of American studies at the University of Nottingham, Peter Ling, pointed out that Garrow was excessively credulous, if not naive, in accepting the accuracy of FBI reports during a period when it was undertaking an operation to attempt to discredit King.[448] Professors Jeanne Theoharis, Barbara Ransby, Nathan Connolly and Glenda Gilmore have expressed reservations about Garrow's scholarship. Theoharis commented "Most scholars I know would penalize graduate students for doing this." It is not the first time the rigor of Garrow's work has been called into serious question.[446] Clayborne Carson, King biographer and overseer of the Dr. King records at Stanford University states that he came to the opposite conclusion of Garrow:

None of this is new. Garrow is talking about a recently added summary of a transcript of a 1964 recording from the Willard Hotel that others, including Mrs. King, have said they did not hear Martin's voice on it. The added summary was four layers removed from the actual recording. This supposedly new information comes from an anonymous source in a single paragraph in an FBI report. You have to ask how could anyone conclude King looked at a rape from an audio recording in a room where he was not present.[449]

The tapes that could confirm or refute the allegation are scheduled to be declassified in 2027.[450]

In his 1989 autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, Ralph Abernathy stated that King had a "weakness for women", although they "all understood and believed in the biblical prohibition against sex outside of marriage. It was just that he had a particularly difficult time with that temptation."[451] In a later interview, Abernathy said he only wrote the term "womanizing", that he did not specifically say King had extramarital sex and that the infidelities were emotional rather than sexual.[452] Abernathy criticized the media for sensationalizing the statements he wrote about King's affairs,[452] such as the allegation King had a sexual affair the night before he was assassinated.[452] In his 1986 book Bearing the Cross, Garrow wrote about affairs, including one woman King saw almost daily. According to Garrow, "that relationship ... increasingly became the emotional centerpiece of King's life, but it did not eliminate the incidental couplings ... of King's travels." He alleged that King explained his affairs as "a form of anxiety reduction". Garrow asserted that King's supposed promiscuity caused him "painful and at times overwhelming guilt".[453] King's wife Coretta appeared to have accepted his affairs with equanimity, saying once that "all that other business just doesn't have a place in the very high-level relationship we enjoyed."[454] Shortly after Bearing the Cross was released, civil rights author Howell Raines gave the book a positive review but opined that Garrow's allegations about King's sex life were "sensational" and stated that Garrow was "amassing facts rather than analyzing them".[455]

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Transgender refers to individuals whose self-perceived gender identity conflicts with their biological sex, the latter defined by dimorphic reproductive roles in which males produce small gametes (sperm) and females produce large gametes (ova), as determined by chromosomal, gonadal, and anatomical characteristics from conception.[1][2] This mismatch often manifests as gender dysphoria, a clinical diagnosis in the DSM-5 characterized by a marked incongruence between one's experienced gender and primary/secondary sex characteristics, lasting at least six months and causing clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other functioning.[3][4]

Prevalence of transgender identification has risen sharply since the early 2010s, particularly among adolescents and young adults, with U.S. estimates indicating approximately 0.6% of adults and higher rates among youth (around 1-2% in recent surveys), though some data suggest a recent decline in young adult identification, potentially reflecting shifts in social trends.[5][6][7] This increase coincides with expanded access to social media and peer networks, where clusters of identification have been observed, prompting hypotheses of social influence or contagion alongside biological and psychological factors, though causal mechanisms remain uncertain and debated.[8] Many transgender individuals report co-occurring conditions such as autism spectrum traits, depression, and anxiety at elevated rates, complicating etiological understanding.[9]

Treatments typically involve social transition (e.g., name/pronoun changes), puberty suppression, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to approximate desired physical traits, but evidence for long-term benefits, especially in minors, is limited and of low quality, as highlighted by the 2024 Cass Review, which critiqued the field's reliance on weak studies and ideological assumptions over rigorous data.[10][11] Controversies persist regarding youth interventions' risks (e.g., infertility, bone density loss), desistance rates in pre-pubertal cases (up to 80-90% without intervention), participation in sex-segregated sports and facilities, and the influence of institutional biases in research and policy, where systematic overemphasis on affirmation has sidelined exploratory therapies and outcome tracking.[12][13]

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Michael Madsen

Michael Søren Madsen (September 25, 1957 – July 3, 2025) was an American actor. In addition to his frequent collaborations with Quentin Tarantino— Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), The Hateful Eight (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)—he was known for his appearances in films including WarGames (1983), The Natural (1984), The Doors (1991), Thelma& Louise (1991), Free Willy (1993), Species (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997), Die Another Day (2002), Sin City (2005), and Scary Movie 4 (2006). He played voice roles in various video games like Grand Theft Auto III (2001), Narc (2005), the Dishonored series (2012–2017), and Crime Boss: Rockay City (2023). Madsen had seven children including actor Christian Madsen.

Early life

Michael Søren Madsen was born on September 25, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2] His mother, Elaine (née Melson), was a filmmaker and author.[2] His father, Calvin Christian Madsen, was a World War II Navy veteran and a firefighter with the Chicago Fire Department. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/oak-lawn-il/calvin-madsen-6635910 His parents divorced in the 1960s and his mother left the financial world to pursue a career in the arts, encouraged by film critic Roger Ebert.[2] He attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000514/bio/ His siblings are Cheryl Madsen, an entrepreneur, and Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen.[3] His paternal grandparents were Danish, while his mother is Irish and Native American.[4]

Career

Madsen began working at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where he served as an apprentice under John Malkovich and appeared in a production of Of Mice and Men.[5] His first notable film role was a small part in the science fiction film WarGames (1983). He appeared in John Dahl's thriller Kill Me Again (1989) as criminal Vince Miller opposite Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley.[6] Early in his career, Madsen had supporting roles in films such as The Natural (1984), The Doors (1991), and Thelma & Louise (1991). In Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut film Reservoir Dogs (1992), Madsen played "Mr. Blonde", a cruel criminal. Steve Buscemi received the role of "Mr. Pink", which Madsen wanted because it had more scenes with Harvey Keitel.[5] For Pulp Fiction (1994), Madsen declined the role of Vincent Vega, which went to John Travolta. Madsen starred in the crime film Donnie Brasco (1997). He said of his later choice of film roles: "Some of them I'm only in for 10 minutes, but they bought my name, and they bought my face to put on the DVD box with a gun. What people don't always understand is that I established a certain lifestyle for my family back in the days of Species and Mulholland Falls and The Getaway. I wasn't about to move my six kids into a trailer park... when people offered me work, it wasn't always the best, but I had to buy groceries and I had to put gas in the car."[5] In 1993, Madsen appeared in Free Willy as Glen Greenwood, the apprehensive but devout foster father of the film's main character played by Jason James Richter (a role that he reprised in Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)). Madsen played assassin Budd, the brother of Bill (David Carradine), in Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004).[7] In 2004, Tarantino discussed an idea for a film to unite Madsen and Travolta as the Vega Brothers.[8] In 2007, Tarantino said the film (which he intended to call Double V Vega) was "kind of unlikely now", because of the age of the actors and the onscreen deaths of both characters.[9] Madsen appeared in Uwe Boll's BloodRayne (2005), a film he described as "an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie."[10] He won Best Actor awards at the Boston Film Festival (2007) and New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (2008) for his performance in Strength and Honour (2007). He played himself in the mockumentary Being Michael Madsen (2007). Madsen co-starred in Coma (2009), a web series on Crackle.[11] He played Jim Ricker, the old friend of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), in the eighth season of 24 (2010).[12] Madsen starred in the comedy film Let the Game Begin (2010). On January 5, 2012, he entered the Celebrity Big Brother house and finished in 4th place. In 2014, he played Las Vegas casino mogul Ted Binion in Josh Evans's film Death in the Desert.[13] The screenplay was written by John Steppling, based on the book Death in the Desert by crime writer Cathy Scott.[14] In August 2014, Madsen starred in the Kill Bill-themed music video for the song "Black Widow" by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora. Madsen starred in the ensemble western film The Hateful Eight (2015). He was among a number of people rumored to have leaked the film's script before it was released, causing Tarantino to almost not make the film and eventually rewrite it. It was later revealed that Madsen was not responsible for leaking the script.[15] Madsen provided voice roles in video games, including Grand Theft Auto III (2001), Narc (2005), the Dishonored series (2012–2017), and Crime Boss: Rockay City (2023). In 2016, he played a dramatized role of former Texas Ranger Phil Ryan in Real Detective on the Investigation Discovery network.[16] He appeared as Sheriff Hackett in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He was an executive producer in Vilan Trub's crime drama film The Dirty Kind (2020), which is loosely inspired by Anthony Weiner.[17] Madsen continued working in independent films until his death in 2025, with posthumous releases including Concessions (2025), Sinatra! Eternity (2025), Resurrection Road (2025), and Cash Collectors (2025).[18]

Personal life

Madsen had a daughter named Jessica with Dana Mechling. Jessica was born March 24, 1979. His first wife was Georganne LaPiere, the half-sister of Cher. Madsen and LaPiere met in 1983, married in 1984, and divorced in 1988.[19] He was married to Jeannine Bisignano from 1991 to 1995. They had two sons, Christian and Max, who were both actors.[20] In total, Madsen had seven children, though details on the seventh are not publicly available. In 1996, Michael Madsen married DeAnna Morgan. The couple married in Ocho Rios, Jamaica while Madsen was on a break from shooting Donnie Brasco.[21] They had three sons, Luke, Kalvin and Hudson. Hudson died by suicide in January 2022.[20] In February 2022, Michael Madsen was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge.[22] On August 17, 2024, he was arrested on a battery charge after he reportedly assaulted his wife. His bail was set at $20,000.[23] Madsen was released from custody after posting the same bail.[24] On September 19, 2024, Madsen filed for divorce from Morgan after 28 years of marriage. In the filing, Madsen claimed that they had been separated since 2022 after their son Hudson's suicide.[25] In October 2024, Madsen posted on Instagram to clarify that he had not authored recent articles suggesting disillusionment with his marriage or a connection blaming his wife for their son's loss, stating, "I was not the writer of this story and wish my wife no harm or embarrassment," and adding that he had "no desire for divorce or blame." [26] The divorce proceedings were ongoing at the time of his death in July 2025. Madsen had a line of hot sauces called American Badass.[27]

Charity work

Madsen received an award for his work with the Shriners Hospital for Children in 2002.[28] In September 2009, he announced his participation in the 26th annual Love Ride to help raise money for local charities.[29] Malcolm Forbes, Peter Fonda, Larry Hagman, Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen, and other celebrities participated. The event was scheduled for October 25, 2009, but was canceled due to poor ticket sales and a decline in sponsorship.[30] Madsen hosted the event An Intimate Evening with Michael Madsen to benefit children's pediatric cancer for Advocate Children's Hospital and the Tyler Robinson Foundation on November 3, 2016.[31]

Death

Madsen died of cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, California, on July 3, 2025, at age 67. He was found unresponsive by emergency responders and pronounced dead at 8:25 a.m. local time (PDT).[32] His cardiologist later confirmed that the cause of death was heart failure, with heart disease and alcoholism being contributing factors.[33] He was cremated, and his ashes were returned to his family.[34] On August 1, Tarantino hosted a private memorial service at the Vista Theatre.[35]

Awards

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Not to be confused with Mads Mikkelsen.

For other people named Michael Madsen, see Michael Madsen (disambiguation).

Michael Søren Madsen (September 25, 1957 – July 3, 2025) was an American actor. He was widely known for starring in Quentin Tarantino's films Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), The Hateful Eight (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). His other film roles included WarGames (1983), The Natural (1984), The Doors (1991), Thelma & Louise (1991), Free Willy (1993), Species (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997), Die Another Day (2002), Sin City (2005), and Scary Movie 4 (2006). Madsen also voiced characters in video games such as Grand Theft Auto III (2001), Narc (2005), the Dishonored series (2012–2017), The Walking Dead: Season Two (2014), and Crime Boss: Rockay City (2023). Madsen had seven children, including actor Christian Madsen.

Michael Madsen

Madsen in 2011

Born

Michael Søren Madsen

September 25, 1957

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Died

July 3, 2025 (aged 67)

Malibu, California, U.S.

Other names

Maykl Madsen

Occupation

Actor

Years active

1982–2025

Spouses

Georganne LaPiere

(m. 1984; div. 1988)

Jeannine Bisignano

(m. 1991; div. 1995)

DeAnna Morgan

(m. 1996)

Children

6, including Christian

Relatives

Elaine Madsen (mother)

Virginia Madsen (sister)

Early life

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Michael Søren Madsen was born in Chicago on September 25, 1957,[1] the son of Elaine (née Melson), a filmmaker and author, and Calvin Christian Madsen, a World War II Navy veteran and firefighter with the Chicago Fire Department.[2] His mother had Irish and Native American ancestry, while his paternal grandparents were Danish immigrants.[3] He had two sisters: actress Virginia and entrepreneur Cheryl.[4] His parents divorced in the 1960s; his mother, having been encouraged by film critic Roger Ebert, left the financial world to pursue a career in the arts. Madsen attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.[5]

Career

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Madsen as a high school senior in 1975

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Madsen began working at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where he served as an apprentice under John Malkovich and appeared in a production of Of Mice and Men.[6]

His first notable film role was a small part for the science fiction film, WarGames. He appeared in John Dahl's thriller Kill Me Again as criminal Vince Miller opposite Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley.[7] In Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut film Reservoir Dogs, Madsen played "Mr. Blonde", a cruel criminal. Steve Buscemi received the role of "Mr. Pink", which Madsen wanted because it had more scenes with Harvey Keitel.[6] For Pulp Fiction, Madsen declined the role of Vincent Vega, which went to John Travolta.

Madsen starred in the crime film Donnie Brasco. He said of his later choice of film roles: "Some of them I'm only in for 10 minutes, but they bought my name, and they bought my face to put on the DVD box with a gun. What people don't always understand is that I established a certain lifestyle for my family back in the days of Species and Mulholland Falls and The Getaway. I wasn't about to move my six kids into a trailer park... when people offered me work, it wasn't always the best, but I had to buy groceries and I had to put gas in the car."[6]

In 1993, Madsen appeared in Free Willy as Glen Greenwood, the apprehensive but devout foster father of the film's main character played by Jason James Richter (a role that reprised in the second). Madsen played assassin Budd, the brother of Bill (David Carradine), in Kill Bill: Volume 2.[8] In 2004, Tarantino discussed an idea for the film to unite Madsen and Travolta, as The Vega Brothers.[9] In 2007, Tarantino said the film (which he intended to call Double V Vega) was "kind of unlikely now", because of the age of the actors and the onscreen deaths of both characters.[10]

Madsen appeared in Uwe Boll's BloodRayne, a film he said is "an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie."[11] He won Best Actor awards at the Boston Film Festival and New York International Independent Film and Video Festival for his performance in Strength and Honour. He played himself in the mockumentary Being Michael Madsen. Madsen co-starred in Coma, a Web series on Crackle.[12]

Madsen in the 2006 Indianapolis 500 All Star Festival Parade (with his son, right)

He played Jim Ricker, the old friend of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), in the eighth season of 24.[13] Madsen starred in the comedy film Let the Game Begin. On January 5, 2012, he entered the Celebrity Big Brother house and he finished in 4th place in the competition. In February 2014, he played Las Vegas casino mogul Ted Binion in Josh Evans' film Death in the Desert.[14] The screenplay was written by John Steppling, based on the book Death in the Desert by crime writer Cathy Scott.[15]In August 2014, Madsen starred in the Kill Bill-themed music video for the song "Black Widow" by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora.

Madsen starred in the ensemble western film The Hateful Eight. He was among a number of people rumored to have leaked the film's script before it was released, causing Tarantino to almost not make the film and eventually rewrite it.[16] It was later revealed that Madsen was not responsible for leaking the script.[citation needed] In 2016, he played a dramatized role of former Texas Ranger Phil Ryan in Real Detective on the Investigation Discovery network.[17] He was an executive producer in Vilan Trub's crime drama film The Dirty Kind, which is loosely inspired by Anthony Weiner.[18]

Personal life

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Madsen had a daughter named Jessica (born March 24, 1979) from a relationship with Dana Mechling. He later married Georganne LaPiere, the half-sister of Cher; the two met in 1983, married in 1984, and divorced in 1988.[19] He was married to Jeannine Bisignano from 1991 to 1995, and they had two sons named Christian and Max, both of whom became actors.[20]

In 1996, Madsen married DeAnna Morgan in Ocho Rios while on a break from shooting Donnie Brasco in Jamaica.[21] They lived in Malibu, California, and had three sons named Luke, Kalvin, and Hudson; the latter took his own life in January 2022.[20] After 28 years of marriage, Madsen reportedly filed for divorce from Morgan in late 2024; in the filing, he claimed that they had been separated since 2022 after their son Hudson's suicide.[22] However, he took to Instagram to deny that he was filing for divorce.[23]

In February 2022, Madsen was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge in Malibu, California.[24] In August 2024, he was arrested in Malibu on a battery charge after he reportedly assaulted his wife DeAnna Morgan. His bail was set at $20,000.[25] He was released from custody after posting the same bail.[26]

Madsen had a line of hot sauces called American Badass.[27]

Charity work

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In 2002, Madsen received an award for his work with the Shriners Hospital for Children.[28] In September 2009, Madsen announced his participation in the 26th annual Love Ride to help raise money for local charities.[29] Malcolm Forbes, Peter Fonda, Larry Hagman, Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen, and other celebrities were also scheduled, but the event was canceled due to poor ticket sales and a decline in sponsorship.[30] In November 2016, Madsen hosted a one-night event called An Intimate Evening with Michael Madsen to benefit children's pediatric cancer for Advocate Children's Hospital and the Tyler Robinson Foundation.[31]

Death

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At 8:25 a.m. PDT on July 3, 2025, Madsen was found unresponsive by emergency responders at his home in Malibu, California. He was pronounced dead at the age of 67.[32] The cause of death was confirmed to be heart failure, with heart disease and alcoholism being contributing factors.[33] His ashes were originally retained by his widow DeAnna Morgan before being buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park.[34] On August 1, his frequent collaborator Quentin Tarantino hosted a private memorial service at the Vista Theatre.[35]

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