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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Colombia's earthquake death toll reaches 329 and 247 still missing as the government plans Ecopetrol board slate and US nears deal with Venezuela on oil fields.

Colombia Earthquake Recovery Efforts · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-08-29 01:07Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A somber landscape of damaged buildings and rubble in Cali with people in hard hats and vests surveying the destruction, while in the background a lunar eclipse darkens the sky, and a group of displaced residents sit together in a hotel lobby, illuminated by a warm glow of light.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A somber landscape of damaged buildings and rubble in Cali with people in hard hats and vests surveying the destruction, while in the background a lunar eclipse darkens the sky, and a group of displaced residents sit together in a hotel lobby, illuminated by a warm glow of light. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

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The Nation
Seismologists track earthquakes in Colombia's Chocó region AI illustrationhow this picture was made

SGC reports second earthquake in Chocó in days

The Colombian Geological Service confirmed a new tremor in the department of Chocó on the morning of Saturday, August 29, 2026.

By Tomás Arango · 3w
Culture and Sport Writer · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sourceshash-verified

The Servicio Geológico Colombiano reported a new earthquake in the department of Chocó on the morning of Saturday, August 29, 2026.

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