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

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.

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....

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.

DC will always rise.

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

Interesting how the title I see is, "What to Look for in a Celebrity Memoir"

Opinion | What to Look for in a Celebrity Memoir

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

Nicely done!! 👏👏

Generative AI, aka "spicy autocomplete," does NOT make satisfying indexes make, not by a long shot. #IndexSky

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

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.’

on my way, as well. here's another meme just for the #indexers 😎😜😎

Super excited here, too! So excited I made a meme. #IndexSky 😎😜😎 #indexers, nervous excited looking forward to it. #bookindexer

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 😱😎

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…

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!

Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb (Gift Article) The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.

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

Trump responds to Musk email Time to fire this guy

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-resp...

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

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’ Shirley Hazzard

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.

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

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.

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