Flash floods kill at least 95 in northern Nepal and a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hits Colombia while FAA sends eight airport grants totaling roughly $79.7M.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-08-30 00:02Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A somber scene unfolds with people evacuating a flooded town in the background, as a plane takes off from a rebuilt airport terminal in the distance, with a Colombian cityscape at dusk, and a group of concerned individuals in the foreground, including a woman clutching a suitcase and a man looking up at the plane.
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 scene unfolds with people evacuating a flooded town in the background, as a plane takes off from a rebuilt airport terminal in the distance, with a Colombian cityscape at dusk, and a group of concerned individuals in the foreground, including a woman clutching a suitcase and a man looking up at the plane. 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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Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68 billion to settle 29-state lawsuit over minors
The August 26 agreement, subject to federal court approval in Oakland, resolves state claims that Facebook and Instagram addicted children and teenagers.
By Marcus Vale · 6wMeta agreed on August 26 to pay up to $16.68 billion to settle lawsuits brought by 29 US states alleging that Facebook and Instagram addict minors and violate their privacy. The deal, which also requires Meta to implement usage restrictions on its platforms for minors in some states, still requires approval from a federal court in Oakland, California, where the trial's second week was under way when the settlement was announced.
Four publishers independently carry figures in the $16.7 billion range. A fifth, elpais.com, puts the figure at up to $18 billion and describes the counterparty as the US government rather than a state coalition - a characterization that does not align with the other four accounts and appears to be an outlier. The read here is that $16.68 billion, sourced to Caracol Radio and corroborated by three additional publishers at $16.7 billion, is the more reliable figure and the one to hold.
The underlying claims, consistent across all eight accounts, are that Meta's platforms were designed in ways that encouraged addictive use among children and teenagers on Facebook and Instagram. The settlement's usage restrictions add a behavioral component on top of the cash payment, though the facts do not specify which states will apply those restrictions or what form they will take.
Approval by the Oakland court is the open variable. Until a judge signs off, the agreement is not final, and the dollar figure could shift.
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