Imari takes the lead again, with Nagi off to a conference in America until the end of the episode. Growing into the mentor role, Imari gives Our Girls another way to look at rocks, and a field test inspires Ruri to begin thinking like a scientist, leading the team to search for supporting evidence on the sapphire’s origins. Which they find, tying in the local mythology again.

By the way, I happened to catch the name of the school, 前芝 = Maeshiba = “front lawn”. It doesn’t appear to be a real place, unlike some of the other locations used in the show, which are scattered across Japan in ways unreachable as day-trips in Nagi’s car.

(the real name of the school should be Waifuhaven College…)

Dear Slashdot summarizer…

I think you should reconsider your use of the word “despite” here:

The heightened scrutiny comes as Microsoft prioritizes investment in generative AI while overseeing a gaming division that has struggled despite spending $76.5 billion on acquisitions.

Related,

The unholy love child of Clippy and Bob has arrived. Mico the animated Copilot avatar will be turned on by default.

This bubble can’t burst fast enough.

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New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards

Whipped cream and other delightsmagical girls

Taking over the world, one desk at a time, Baiser/Leoparde style.

Stick a pin-up in it, it’s done

While the previous LoRA met the goal of adding a bit of flavor to the cheesecake, it’s not stable yet, doesn’t play well with others, and its nude side is overtrained on fake boobs. SNOFS has better variety there, but really wants to go hardcore, which is not what I’m looking for in cheesecake wallpaper. Enter Pin-up Girl, which captures the classic pin-up aesthetic and doesn’t turn pretty girls into melty mutants when combined with half-strength SNOFS.

The results were encouraging, and the refine/upscale process only introduced relatively minor flaws (changed facial expressions, some really distorted background items, etc) , so I didn’t have to reject a bunch and try to remake them:

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