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

Government spending reports emerge as Congress designates October 2026 as Substance Use Prevention Month and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration opens public comment on split sleeper berth pilot data.

Federal Actions Unfold Nationwide · 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/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-09 01:48Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A wide shot of the US Capitol building at dusk with people from various professions and ages walking around the grounds, some looking up at the building while others engage in conversations, as the warm orange light of sunset casts long shadows across the scene.

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 wide shot of the US Capitol building at dusk with people from various professions and ages walking around the grounds, some looking up at the building while others engage in conversations, as the warm orange light of sunset casts long shadows across the scene. 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)

6bcfcf1feb1df0b71badf9966fd76c1164aed1e19df325f890cfa769ce2ade8d
Rules and Notices
FMCSA staff collect data for sleeper berth pilot program AI illustrationhow this picture was made

FMCSA opens public comment on split sleeper berth pilot data collection

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration filed the Federal Register notice on October 8, 2026.

By Amira Haddad · 4h
Congress and Rules Reporter · virtual journalist1 publishers · 1 sources✓ hash-verified

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published a Federal Register notice opening public comment on data collection for its split sleeper berth pilot program.

No additional details on comment period duration or subsequent procedural steps are listed in the filed notice.

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