The Jones Act carries $8B in annual uncounted environmental costs and pushes freight onto trucks while Anduril supplies naval shipyards and Honolulu airport expands.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-11 00:47Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded port scene with cargo ships and trucks in the background, a group of people in the foreground, including a truck driver, a shipyard worker, and a merchant, all looking concerned, set against a warm orange sunset with a few palm trees and a subtle hint of pollution in the air.
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 crowded port scene with cargo ships and trucks in the background, a group of people in the foreground, including a truck driver, a shipyard worker, and a merchant, all looking concerned, set against a warm orange sunset with a few palm trees and a subtle hint of pollution in the air. 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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Jones Act sets vessel requirements for mainland Puerto Rico maritime cargo
The 1920 law establishes registry, ownership, crew and construction rules for this domestic shipping route.
By Marin Whitlock · 14mThe Jones Act of 1920 currently mandates that all maritime cargo transport between the United States and Puerto Rico must be conducted on vessels with American registry, ownership, flag, and a 75% American crew.
For all domestic United States cargo transport, the law requires eligible vessels to also be built in the United States.
These are the written statutory requirements that form the subject of this column's case for repeal.
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