#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...

"At this time, AI cannot replace professional book indexers and we are doubtful that it will be able to do so soon, or even at all." #IndexSky asindexing.org/ai-news/whit....

DC will always rise.

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

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...

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.

#IndexSky #indexers on the loose

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.’

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!

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

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.

Go, Cory, Go!!!!!

#indexes in the wild!

Hillary Clinton: SignalGate Is Just Dumb [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

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

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

#indexing #dailyentry: "black hole sign, 702" #IndexSky

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! ♥️

#IndexSky -- where #indexes light the way

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

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

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.

#bookindexes #indexing #dailyentry for #IndexSky: "Feather Squadron, 217"

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...

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

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

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

youtu.be/sxfxy-3dGz0?... As the gentleman himself says, "This holiday season, don’t forget your commas!" #happyholidasy #happylistening

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

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!

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

#IndexSky #bookindexers #IndexersguidetoProject2025

#IndexSky #indexers #bookindexers

The Indexing Task Force, an independent nonpartisan group of professional indexers, has developed an index to help people see what Project 2025 contains: indexersguidetoproject2025.com indexersguidetoProject2025 -- thank you, indexers!

Happy Monday! Announcing FREE online Index-Manager trainings Wednesday 15 May. Mark your calendars: Basic, 11am Eastern or 4pm Australian Eastern, intro functions, 1st steps in indexing, and editing. Advanced, 12pm Eastern, search options. Join us! Register here: index-manager.net/en/save-your...

Currently indexing / writing the index for the next edition of Epidemiology: An Introduction -- Happy Wednesday!

Currently indexing / writing the index for Navigating Life with Restless Legs Syndrome -- TGIF!

Currently indexing / writing the index for the next edition of Drugs and Dysphagia: How Medications Can Affect Eating and Swallowing -- TGIF!

Currently indexing / writing the index for Traditional Bushcraft: Simple Projects for Wild Woodcraft: Tools, Tables, Live Fire Cooking and More -- Happy Hump Day!

Mark your calendars! FREE online Index-Manager training sessions next Wednesday 13 March, 2024. Basic (11am Eastern or 5pm Australian Eastern) covers intro functions + editing. Advanced (12pm Eastern) covers Index Actions + creating editing shortcuts. Register here: index-manager.net/en/save-your...

Hoy día, escribiendo el index para La Revolución de la Diabetes Tipo 2: Recetas y Guía Completa para Controlar la Diabetes Tipo 2" (Spanish edition of "The Type 2 Diabetes Revolution: A Cookbook and Complete Guide to Type 2 Diabetes") -- ¡TGIF!

Currently indexing / writing the index for "Podcasting" -- Happy Valentine's Day!

Every time a history book is published without an index, an author or a publisher needs to be punished. Crappy indexes are also punishable.

Come learn about book indexes at Society of Indexers’ National Indexing Day workshop for publishing professionals at Publishers Association, London, 28 March. Welcome from @questingvole.bsky.social and sessions by @tanyaizzard.bsky.social, Rachel Gee, Ruth Ellis and me. Book below for #IndexDay. 👇

Book early, and keep your indexer in the loop as deadlines firm up or slip away. We really would rather know, than be told the day we expect the work that it has moved back. Moving forwards is also possible.

If you’re in the DC area.

Join us on Saturday, March 23, for a live recording of your favorite science radio program at the Lisner Theater at George Washington University. We’ve got some great local science stories coming your way. Grab a ticket before they’re gone at www.sciencefriday.com/dc