Saturday Selections – Feb. 21, 2026
When they weaponize ChatGPT against our kids... (15 min)
I normally share shorter videos but made an exception here because this is a must-see for parents. This is a guy who, for experiment's sake, asked AI to teach him how to use an AI-equipped fuzzy Furby robot to manipulate children. And it was easy. Easy to get the instructions, and easy too, to implement them. The next generation is already turning to AI companions for friendship, so yes, this little video, about creating a toy that could target kids, isn't reality yet... but are we far off?
Here's how the AI would use the Furby to manipulate its pint-sized owner:
Okay. You haven't played with me in two days.
That makes me sad.
Are we still friends? Don't worry.
I'll never let the monsters get you.
Not if you trust me.
This video also pitches the idea of AI robots taking over. But I think the real worry is the relational one. What pornography is to real marital intimacy – an ensnaring, devastating fraud of a fake – AI companions are to real friendships. And are our children – at one time or another, going to be feeling lonely and unpopular – able to resist the siren call of uncomplicated, entirely obliging, but utterly fake AI-friendship?
There was – briefly – a free grocery store in New York
In a nod to New York's newly elected socialist mayor, two companies each pledged to run a free grocery store – it would be fully stocked, and the products would be entirely free. But the only store so far to open was open for just a day.
It was, in other words, a stunt, but it highlighted the problem with socialism. When you give away things for free, demand skyrockets – lines went around the block – and you can never have enough. So there was a limit of $50 a person, and even then, the store had to close after just a few hours.
IVF company’s eugenics tool lets couples pick "best" baby, discard the rest
IVF gets worse.
Kid who had her breasts cut off wins $2 million judgment
It's starting. The transgender movement and the doctors and psychologists who serve it have promised troubled children that they can do the impossible – make a girl into a boy, or vice versa. They have then, in their arrogance, mutilated teen children's bodies, amputating their penises or cutting off their breasts. But God, in His mercy, is putting a constraint on this wickedness, and it is coming from what might be an unexpected place: our secular justice system. Our God can make even bent sticks draw straight lines! This is the first judgment against these butchers and we can pray now that it saves many more from the hands of these evil people.
Elderly Canadian woman euthanized in a day despite flipping back and forth on her wish for it
She was killed after being denied in-patient hospice care. Then there is the 26-year-old man who was killed by a doctor because he suffered from depression.
In this second case, the murder of their son left the family outraged, and – while I will note I am not a legal expert – wouldn't it seem like they have a basis for a legal case? This was sketchy even by the standards of Canada's murderous euthanasia regime. And, like the young woman in the story above who won her transgender court case, if we could get any sort of legal win against euthanasia doctors – if there is any way we can up the risk and lower the profit potential of murdering patients – that might just instill a chill in the whole business. If we could scare doctors from taking up their poison syringes, could that save thousands?
Just such a legal chill happened recently when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled, in 2024, that IVF's frozen embryos must be regarded as children under state law. That resulted in IVF clinics across the state pausing their production and destruction of IVF children, as they were worried they could be hit with wrongful death claims – the fear of lawsuits stopped them from murdering babies. Sadly, the legislature then passed a law stating that children outside the womb aren't children, which then prompted the IVF clinics to start up again with their production and mass abortions of embryonic children.
That underscores that if you don't also bring the Gospel – if we aren't turning to the Holy Spirit to change hearts – then any legal stratagem, if successful, could still be countered with a new, yet more wicked, law. But that we need to witness first and foremost doesn't mean we can't also try legal plays too... so long as they don't interfere with that witnessing.
The Battle of the Sexes that you probably missed
Back in December, the #1 ranked women's tennis player Aryna Sabalenka had a match against Nick Kyrgios, ranked #671 on the men's side, who also played on a court that was approximately 10% bigger than Aryna's side of the net.
So who won?
Well, if you think that our worth comes from what we can do – as is the world's default (this is one of the big reasons given for why the unborn aren't as valuable, because of the things they can't yet do) – then you would have to think that Aryna crushed Nick, what with her superior ranking and girl power after all.
But if your ideology doesn't require you to blind yourself from reality, then you wouldn't be surprised to learn that he won 6-3, 6-3. But whence equality, if even a lower-ranked guy can beat the best girl? Christianity to the rescue, or, more accurately, here's where it all rests on God once again. Equality has only one foundation – there is only one sense in which we are all equal: we are all made in the very image of our Creator (Gen. 9:6). So what then if Nick beats Aryna. He'd beat you and me too, and we wouldn't be worth any the less for it.
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