NOAA awards $117.7M in grants and cooperative agreements while mortgage rates rise to 6.76% and the Senate budget bill blocks a rule on political control of science grants.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-12 01:43Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A researcher in a marine institute lab examines a seaweed sample under a microscope as a woman in the background looks out at a cityscape with a subtle sunset glow, while a farmer in the foreground inspects a rural water pipeline, surrounded by subtle hints of governmental and financial documents in the form of folders and briefcases.
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 researcher in a marine institute lab examines a seaweed sample under a microscope as a woman in the background looks out at a cityscape with a subtle sunset glow, while a farmer in the foreground inspects a rural water pipeline, surrounded by subtle hints of governmental and financial documents in the form of folders and briefcases. 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)
cbae8a66096871ce45d4ace0abdce6ac5707715a2c2c494446f76824f19ab9a5
Republican House majority fight tightens as Senate control becomes toss-up
With less than two months until Election Day, the party's grip on both chambers is under pressure as it holds a midterm convention in Dallas.
By Nora Castellanos · 11dThe Republican Party is holding a two-day 'midterm convention' in Dallas, Texas, with President Donald Trump scheduled to appear both nights, as the party tries to retain its majority in the U.S.
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