Do you have one of those piano ties?

It would be awesome if @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighed in on this sartorial conundrum, and more generally, how one should dress for these kinds of "must dress formally" events (in the rest of my life, I basically wear copies of the same black shirt and jeans every day)

it is apparently the third oldest continuously operating business in Cambridge, so not off the mark.

I got my first piece of formalwear—a second hand tuxedo for youth symphony performances—from them when I was 16, and they never disappoint

Yes! If you ever are in the Boston area and need same day tailoring, Keezer's in Cambridge has got your back.

thanks!... unrelated: do know any tailors in the area who do quick-turn suit alterations?

I suspect that we've been doing the same thing to ourselves for generations.

That's good news. One of the most compelling theories of wolf domestication I have heard is that they *self*-domesticated, at least at the beginning. There was an evolutionary advantage to being less terrifying and therefore able to get closer to the humans without getting killed.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

What's that? Yeah, muppets haven't been invented yet. But they're gonna be really goofy. Do we have a deal?

an interesting feature of identification threats is that a single low-confidence hypothesis that two graph nodes might be connected is often all that is needed to completely unravel the whole thing.

Definitely. Pretty sure my kids were born with their genetic privacy already compromised, because of 23andme usage across relatives, including many who they will probably never meet. And that's over and above the troves of combined cellular and GPS data that is being warehoused.

My gut intuition is that a DNA sample in the hands of a state actor today can probably identify any individual to within a dozen or fewer candidates. But that may be wrong if there are whole big family trees with no sampling at all.