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FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Cybertruck at Tesla's design studio on Nov. 21, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. Days after taking over Twitter and a week before the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, Musk has positioned himself as moderator-in-chief of one of the most important social media platforms in American politics. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Column: Elon Musk has replaced Twitter with X — and an actual business with science fiction

The bizarre renaming of Twitter is the latest and most pointed example of how Silicon Valley is losing touch with reality.

Culver City, California July 18, 2023-Members of SAG and AFTRA strike outside Sony Pictures in Culver City Tuesday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angles Times)

As actors and writers push back on automation, Hollywood is in the midst of an AI hiring boom

Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, on Friday, July 28, 2023. San Francisco has launched an investigation into the sign as city officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Huge, strobe-effect ‘X’ removed from roof of Twitter HQ

FILE - Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, in Fremont, Calif. Musk may want to send “tweet” back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay, at least for now. For one, the word is still plastered all over the website formerly known as Twitter. Write a post, you still need to press a blue button that says “tweet” to publish it. To repost it, you still tap “retweet.” (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets

SANTA BARBARA, CA-JULY 24, 2023: Overall, shows the former headquarters of the Santa Barbara News-Press on Anacapa St. in Santa Barbara. After more than 150 years of newsgathering, the Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper has posted its last online edition a month after the News-Press ceased publication of its newspaper and went all digital. Before closing, they moved their location to Goleta, where the paper was printed, before going all digital. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara News-Press bankruptcy brings uneasy end to an owner’s bitter tenure

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