The Pour Over Today - South Carolina Primary, Google’s Gaffe, & More | 02.26.24

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

Today, we’re talking about South Carolina’s Republican Primary, Google’s apology for some of its AI’s answers, the Ukraine war turning two, and other top news for Monday, February 26th. Stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pour Over Today. Please support our TPO sponsors! LMNT: https://links.thepourover.org/LMNT0103 A Jew and a Gentile Discuss: https://links.thepourover.org/JewGentileDiscussPod Holman Handbook Series: https://links.thepourover.org/HolmanHandbook TUVU: https://www.tuvu.com/tpo

Today, we're talking about South Carolina's Republican primary, Google's apology for some of its AI's answers, the Ukraine war turning to, and other top news for Monday, February 26th. Stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with The Pour Over today. Here's the verse of the week. Little children, let us not love in word or talk, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3.18 Let's get started with some espresso shots.

Former President Trump clinched South Carolina's Republican primary on Saturday with 59.8% of the vote. Nikki Haley, the state's former governor, won 39.5%. Despite the home state defeat, Haley promised to continue her campaign through at least Super Tuesday, a week from tomorrow, when 21 states and territories head to the polls. Haley, a former U.N. ambassador, says Trump cannot win a general election and stresses that a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The day before his Palmetto victory party, Trump called for protections for IVF in response to Alabama's Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children. Since the decision, several of the state's fertility clinics have stopped procedures, fearing legal risk.

The Alabama House is reportedly working on bipartisan legislation in support of IVF. We shouldn't allow political outcomes to consume our thoughts, direct our emotions, or dull our hope. Government may change, but our mission remains the same. Love God and love others. Mark 12, 29-31 says, The most important commandment, answered Jesus, is this, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

The second is this, love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these. Google's Gemini, the AI chatbot formerly known as BARD, has found itself in hot water. Last week, Google paused Gemini's ability to generate images after users shared examples of historically inaccurate images such as depicting the Pope as female, a Native American founding father, black and Asian people as Nazi soldiers, and completely refusing some prompts to create images of white people. Google apologized Friday, saying that some of the images generated are inaccurate or even offensive, noting that AI is an emerging technology and they're trying to roll it out safely and responsibly. Google also apologized and promised quick changes after the chatbot refused to say that pedophilia was wrong.

Critics say that a company like Google should be able to generate results that are both accurate and inoffensive. Here's a truth to consider when you're disappointed with Google's limitations. God knows everything. Before a word is on my tongue, you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Psalm 139, 4-6. Saturday marked two years of war between Russia and Ukraine.

Marking the day, Ukraine's President Zelensky gave his first-ever casualty report, saying that 31,000 Ukrainian troops and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed. saying that 31,000 Ukrainian troops and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed. That's lower than U.S.'s estimates and much lower than Russia's estimates of Ukrainian deaths. Zelensky also vowed that Ukraine would prevail on its own terms. In Russia, the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny was returned to his mother after she signed the death certificate saying he died of natural causes. Russian officials continue to suppress public displays of sympathy over his death, and plans for his funeral remain unclear.

Responding to Navalny's death, President Biden announced 500 new sanctions targeting Russian individuals, financial networks, defense, and energy, saying Putin must pay the price for his death and destruction or he'll keep going. As we mourn violence and pray for peace around the world, believers are reminded of how good the news is of Jesus' coming kingdom. His spirit offers supernatural peace in our hearts today, and his return promises peace in a renewed earth forever. Isaiah 65, 17, and 25 says, See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent's food.

They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord. harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord. Hebrews 13.3 calls believers to continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. It can be difficult to pray for persecuted brothers and sisters around the world when we don't know them. Let the Voice of the Martyrs introduce you. On March them. Let the Voice of the Martyrs introduce you. On March 8th, the Voice of the Martyrs is hosting a free virtual event where you'll hear firsthand stories from three Christians who have paid the price for advancing the gospel in places dominated by Islam.

Hear their inspiring testimonies of costly faith, plus worship from Stephen Curtis Chapman. Register your family at iamnevent.com forward slash tpo or find the link in the show notes and watch wherever you are. In other brews, here's a rapid round of updates. The U.S. and U.K. conducted a fourth round of airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Saturday. The latest wave, carried out with support from six additional countries, including Australia and Canada, was spread across eight locations and meant to disrupt Houthis' threats on global trade.

The Houthis promised more attacks after this American and British escalation. For the first time since 1972, a U.S.-built spacecraft is on the moon. The touchdown of Intuitive Machines' Odysseus was the first lunar landing ever by a private company, and it was spicy. The spacecraft tipped over, hindering some communications. Odysseus' mission was largely sponsored by NASA, which paid $118 million for it to carry experiments to the moon's south pole. The FBI, FCC, and Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure Security Agency

are all looking into Thursday's AT&T outage, which left tens of thousands of customers without service. AT&T says the initial review found that disruption was caused by a bad software update, not a cyber attack, and promised to credit affected customers $5. A 26-year-old Venezuelan man was arrested Friday in the killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student whose body was found near the University of Georgia's campus. Some GOP lawmakers are blaming President Biden's handling of the southern border because the suspect crossed the border illegally in September 2022 and was released with temporary permission to stay. in September 2022 and was released with temporary permission to stay. Wayne LaPierre, former CEO of the NRA, was found liable for mismanaging the non-profit's funds on things like luxury travel and vendors willing to offer kickbacks. He and other management were

ordered to repay $6.35 million for abusing the system, a win for New York AG Letitia James, whose office brought the lawsuit against the gun rights group. And that's all we have for today. Thanks so much for listening. If you're listening on the Apple Podcasts app, give us a 5-star rating and drop a review. If you're listening on Spotify, give us a follow and hit the notification bell to never miss a new episode. We appreciate your support and hope you have a great day. We'll see you on Wednesday.