Elon Musk is bringing a '90s mentality to Twitter's decidedly 2022 problems, Axios tech managing editor Scott Rosenberg writes.

Driving the news: Musk sent the company's workers a memo early this morning asking them to commit to a new, "extremely hardcore" work environment.

• They were given one day to either click a button signaling that they were on board or leave the company.

The catch: The outside engineers he brought in to Twitter reportedly may have evaluated programmers by counting how many lines of code they'd written.

• But many of the best programmers maintain that their most important work involves deleting things, knowing what to leave out in the first place, or rewriting overly complex code into briefer commands.

Twitter's biggest problems — including the wave of pranks and fraud that forced Musk to pull back his revamped subscription plan — have to do with human behavior, not program code.

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Women will make up about a quarter of the Senate once the next session of Congress begins. That’s a major reversal from historical norms in which there were not only more men than women in the Senate, but more men named John than women.

By the numbers: Men with a handful of especially common names, particularly John or Jon, outnumbered women until pretty recently.

• And though the tables have turned, the John caucus is still strong — 75% of senators are men, including 10% who are men named John or Jon.
• Nobody ever said the Senate moves fast.

1. Senate Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell to be their leader, easily quashing a mini-mutiny from the right. Go deeper.
2. The House passed a bill to limit the use of nondisclosure agreements in workplace sexual misconduct cases. It now goes to President Biden for his signature. Go deeper.
3. NATO agreed that Tuesday’s missile strikes in Poland were likely an accident — easing fears of an escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. (AP)
4. Here's how former President Trump's 2024 announcement was covered on the front of his beloved New York Post — a Rupert Murdoch property Trump spent decades leaking to ...

Spectators watched in awe this morning as NASA's Artemis I mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

• The unmanned rocket will circle the moon and come back to Earth later this year, hoping to pave the way for new manned missions to the moon in 2025.

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