"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.

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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....

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

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

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

#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...