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

Colombia ends peace talks and steps up military against armed groups as Antioquia sends building materials to earthquake affected families and Avianca resumes Bogotá-Caracas flights.

Earthquake Relief and Shifting Politics · 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, 2026-08-31 00:28Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A fictional president stands in a rubble filled street in Cali, handing a key to a relieved woman, while in the background, aid workers in yellow vests distribute building materials, and a plane flies overhead, casting a shadow on the dusty ground, under a cloudy grey sky.

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 fictional president stands in a rubble filled street in Cali, handing a key to a relieved woman, while in the background, aid workers in yellow vests distribute building materials, and a plane flies overhead, casting a shadow on the dusty ground, under a cloudy grey sky. 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
Colombian president apologizes for inauguration ceremony breach AI illustrationhow this picture was made

De la Espriella apologises for Cali inauguration ceremony

The Colombian president said the August 7 swearing-in violated the principle of religious neutrality of the state.

Regions Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sourceshash-verified

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella issued a public apology on Sunday for his inauguration ceremony, held on August 7 in Cali.

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