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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#indexing #dailyentry: mosquito control, 2026 V2:52-53 -- yes, please! #IndexSky

pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mark your calendars! Free #Index-Manager webinars Wednesday Sept 30: -Basic session 11am EDT incl. tour of basic functions, modes, general #indexing procedures. -Advanced session 12pm EDT incl. editing, quality checks, working with file formats. Register: index-manager.net/en/save-your... #IndexSky

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Online Training Series Index-Manager BasicWe start with a short tour, and you will learn about:help functions, import and open files, adapt layout: add or remove windows, adjust size and positionText...

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again" - Thomas Paine On America's 250th birthday, a reminder from one of our most humanist founders: our capacity to create a fairer, more compassionate world is always within grasp.

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy Tuesday, #IndexSky! The next free Online Index-Manager Training is Wednesday, July 1st, 11:00 am EDT. Katharina Munk will take you through numerous functions to facilitate #indexing work, including post-processing and quality checks. Save your seat here: index-manager.net/en/home/?v=6...

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#indexSky #dailyentry: Greta’s Escarpment Streamside Treefrog (Sarcohyla gretae), 435, 441m, 444, pl. 17.32 -- Happy #indexing, Happy Thursday! @thunberggreta.bsky.social

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#indexSky #dailyentry: "Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), 13, 15, plate 8.4" -- Happy #Indexing, Happy Friday!

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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Charles and I have spent years turning people-first values into real policy. We’ve expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit, improved safety infrastructure around our schools, and paused utility shutoffs for families who needed support.

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Happy Monday! Katharina Munk is hosting a FREE online #Index-Manager training Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 12pm EST. She will demonstrate functions to facilitate #indexing , post-processing entries and quality checks. Click here: index-manager.net/en/save-your...

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Happy Monday! FREE online Index-Manager trainings with Katharina Munk this Wed Feb 25 5pm GMT/12pm EST. Learn functions to facilitate indexing, incl. post-processing and quality checks. Click here to register: index-manager.net/en/save-your... Future trainings: April 29, June 24. Join us! #IndexSky

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

#Indexing #dailyentries, while looking out over a bright white snow and ice-covered landscape: snowballs, 380 snowbanking, 380 Happy Indexing, #IndexSky!

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In response to ICE’s execution of Renee Nicole Good & violence against our communities, the 50501 Movement is demanding the immediate abolition of ICE & is joining its partners in the Disappeared in America Coalition to announce ICE OUT For Good, a nationwide mobilization scheduled for 1/10 & 1/11.

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Happy National Indexing Day! Quality indexes are an essential part of publishing. American Society for Indexing (ASI) has examined gen AI for book indexes. They require expert review to meet basic standards of quality or completeness, navigability, and accuracy: asindexing.org/ai-and-index....

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AI and Indexing

As part of ASI’s commitment to excellence in indexing, ASI has formed a committee whose charge is to monitor, assess, investigate, and evaluate the impacts of AI on indexing. The AI Committee&#8217…

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Plenty of protest themes going on with Halloween decorations this year:

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gwynnek @gwynnek.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I’m sure you’ve seen this (Brookland).

Oversized skeleton wearing a pink shirt and holding what could be imagined as a very large subway sandwich that it may throw at some federales.

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Statement on AI and Book #Indexing from ASI: "AI is not currently capable of producing even adequate indexes. High-quality indexes that meet reader needs and expectations still require the fine-grained human judgment of a professional indexer." asindexing.org/ai-news/stat... #IndexSky #bookindexes

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Statement on AI and Book Indexing | American Society for Indexing

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 25/08/2025

#AI lies to us. That’s why Jaime Fernández Fisac created a “bullshit index” to track how and why AI is misleading its users. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinform...

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

DC will always rise.

A nighttime scene of 14th and U Street. Street lamps and car headlines illuminate the darkened street, with people walking by and scooters driving through the intersection. A light projection of the words "Free DC for all" with the DC flag illuminate the side of a building on the far side of the intersection.

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

#indexing daily entry for #IndexSky: "Gut Feel Index (GFI), 279"

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Thank you for the support, Ben Widdicombe and Steve Rubell, “First thing I did,” he said, “was look for the index.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

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Opinion | What to Look for in a Celebrity Memoir

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · 31/05/2025

Great @indexerscanada.bsky.social session by Elizabeth Bartmess on AI and LLM attempts to index full-length books (with HT @tanyaizzard.bsky.social). Plus how to respond as societies and individual indexers (the ‘context artists’). ‘LLMs are not indexing a book. They are autocompleting an index.’

Elizabeth Bartmess presenting on AI at Indexing Society of Canada ISC/SCI 2025 conference with a slide with following text.

LLMs’ nature
• LLMs are predictive text generators
• ‘Spicy autocomplete’
• They are not Indexing a book, they are autocompleting an index
– they are predicting
– based on statistical frequency of words in their corpus,
– what a response to your prompt would likely look like
– they are not going through the book and gathering all the bits of indexable material
• They generate text, then generate more text, linearly
• They cannot edit previously produced text
• It's not surprising they don't produce good indexes. It’s not what they’re designed forl

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Free online training for embedded indexing with Index-Manager Wednesday 14 May, 2025! Basic: 11am EDT or 6pm Australian EDT, Advanced: 12pm EDT. Basic sessions: short tour of important functions, focus on 1st steps. Advanced: focuses on editing. Register: lnkd.in/eBEpiSYt. Join us! Happy #indexing!

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#indexers #IndexSky #bookindexers ... and yes, just a leetle nervous and intimidated about the whole thing 😱😎

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Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Free access to these Indexer articles for a couple more days: the hidden world of indexing, dealing with unconventional texts, medieval names, indexing comic fiction, and the implications of generative AI. Thanks to @livunipress.bsky.social for making these available for #IndexDay.

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Celebrating National Indexing Day 2025

National Indexing Day The Society of Indexers is celebrating National Indexing Day for the seventh successive year on Thursday 27th March 2025. This year we will be celebrating with a half-day in-p…

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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

There will be no accountability without a free press. Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Support Ann at anntelnaes.substack.com

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Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's World Book Day today! One of the ways you can #ReadYourWay is by using the index to find the parts of a book that you're really interested in. All non-fiction books deserve a great index so that readers can find the information they really want. Learn more about indexing at buff.ly/WeSkr2y

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · 14/02/2025

From Barbara Pym’s No Fond Return of Love: ‘but a book can be made or marred by its index. And love and devotion are not necessarily the best qualifications, she thought, remembering the wives and others who undertook what was often acknowledged to be a thankless task.’ Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥️

A paperback front cover of the novel No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym. It shows an illustration of a brunette woman in blue dress and heels looking through a tall bookcase at a studious man reading a book.
The cover quote is:
‘One of her very best – comic, heartrending, brave; in short, like life itself’
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Extract from No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym.
People always look on indexers as unintelligent drudges, thought Dulcie a little indignantly, as she smiled faintly at an old joke he had just trotted out; but a book can be made or marred by its index. And love and devotion are not necessarily the best qualifications, she thought, remembering the wives and others who undertook what was often acknowledged to be a thankless task.

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

DOGE was not in Project 2025. Here's a cross-reference to add to the #index navigation guide: "DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), See abolishment or dismantling, proposed, of agencies, departments, and offices" -- Aren't #bookindexes great?! #IndexSky

Screenshot of the 1st entry to the Index to Project 2025 by the independent Indexing Task Force. Main heading, "abolishment or dismantling, propoesd, of agencies, departments, and offices" followed by a list with page numbers: Climate Hub Office, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Education, Department of Energy agencies, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice offices, EPA offices, EXIM, Federal Reserve, FINRA, NAC, NIH Offices, USTDA, and more.

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Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Have I told you that a group of indexers volunteered their time and energy to index the monstrosity that is Project 2025? This is NOT made with AI, but only professional indexers. Please bookmark and boost! Share it with journalists! indexersguidetoproject2025.com

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- Indexers' Guide to Project 2025

An index to Project 2025 Project 2025 is a 900-page document proposing major changes to the United States government with significant impact on the future of our nation. Given the length and scope of ...

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Professional Editors Network @pensite.org · 21/01/2025

What if your job is not to index a book, but to review an index someone else has created? For our February meeting, experienced indexer Jolanta Komornicka will discuss what editors and proofreaders should know about this part of the publishing process.

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What to Know About Proofreading Indexes

February 11, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. CT

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The Washington Post’s editorial cartoonist quits after editors spike cartoon mocking tech billionaires (including WashPost owner Jeff Bezos) for sucking up to Trump open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

To quote Bette Davis, "Fasten your seatbelt..."

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · 22/12/2024

An #Indexmas advent calendar A to Z. Add your own and see also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky. 🌟 Day 22. V is for… value of indexes vocabulary

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value of indexes: Have you ever tried to use a non-fiction book with a bad index? Or one with no index at all? The horror...

vocabulary: The index will largely follow the vocabulary of the main text, but the indexer will also consider extra access points and synonyms which might not be mentioned in the book at all. For example, if the index has a 'food' section, the indexer may add cross-references from headings such as diet, nutrition, etc.. A book which discusses swear words or such content should also have that reflected in its index, which can make for some interesting entries.

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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org · 21/12/2024

An #Indexmas advent calendar A to Z. Suggest your own and see also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky. ☃️ Day 21. U is for… undifferentiated locators updates user needs

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undifferentiated locators: A long list of too many locators (or page numbers) with no breakdown into subentries is generally not helpful to the reader. (see also locator strings)

updates: When publishing a second or further edition of a book, it can be quicker and easier for the original indexer to update their index rather than ask a new indexer to do this, or to re-index the entire book, depending on how much material has changed. Good indexing is much more than a case of 'just adding page numbers' to a supplied list of words though. The results of this may be neither pretty nor of much use.

user needs: A good book indexer should consider the needs of the user (reader) – who are they, when will they be using the index, and what will they need to look up? (see also readers)

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

TACO. see transfusion-associated circulatory overload -- #indexing dailyentry, #bookindexing

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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Katharina is back! Free online Index-Manager training 4 Dec: Basic 1 (11am EST), Basic 2 (4pm Australian EDT), Advanced (12pm EST). Basic includes important functions and 1st steps. Advanced focuses on editing. Register: index-manager.net/en/save-your.... Join us! / Happy #indexing!

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Théo @tlpavlich.gay · 17/11/2024

This needs to be on the #NWSL feed, stat.

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