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Chief indexer & Consultant, Wyman Indexing. Great indexes for great books -- in all media. Professional services since 1990. wymanindexing.com
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pilarw2000 @pilarw2000.bsky.social · Oct 18
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!
Indexers' Guide to Project 2025 – A finding aid for those wishing to gain a better understanding of the goals of Project 2025.
indexersguidetoproject2025.com
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maustermuhle.bsky.social
Plenty of protest themes going on with Halloween decorations this year:
October 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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gwynnek.bsky.social
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.
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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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
Statement on AI and Book Indexing | American Society for Indexing
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October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#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...
August 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
"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
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ASI releases white paper “LLM-Generated Book Indexes: Can They Replace Professionally Created Indexes?” | American Society for Indexing
We are developing a Statement on AI based on the white paper, which will include guidance for authors, publishers, and indexers; the statement will be released soon.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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.
August 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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#indexing daily entry for #IndexSky: "Gut Feel Index (GFI), 279"
August 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
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...
Opinion | What to Look for in a Celebrity Memoir
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July 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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astrokatie.com
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.
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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#IndexSky #indexers on the loose
June 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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baindex.org
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
May 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
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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May 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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#indexers #IndexSky #bookindexers

... and yes, just a leetle nervous and intimidated about the whole thing 😱😎
indexerscanada.bsky.social indexerscanada.bsky.social @indexerscanada.bsky.social · May 8
Join Jolanta Komornicka, Pilar Wyman, Michele Combs, Devon Thomas & Gina Guilinger in the round-table session “X-Men United, Indexers Divided?: Differing Approaches to Indexing the Same Text”, where they discuss different approaches to indexing the same book. Register at www.conference.indexers.ca
conference.Indexers.ca – Annual conference of Canada's professional society of indexers
www.conference.indexers.ca
May 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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indexers.bsky.social
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.
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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April 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
Go, Cory, Go!!!!!
booker.senate.gov Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · Mar 31
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
pilarw2000.bsky.social
#indexes in the wild!
carlosindex.bsky.social Carlos Garcia-Jane @carlosindex.bsky.social · Mar 27
Happy National Indexing Day to all indexers, readers, publishers, and everyone! A selection of indexers available from the library collection of The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama #IndexDay @indexers.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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silversmith1.bsky.social
Hillary Clinton: SignalGate Is Just Dumb [Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
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.
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March 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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fiona-webster22.bsky.social
There will be no accountability without a free press.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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indexers.bsky.social
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
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Trump responds to Musk email
Time to fire this guy
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February 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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#indexing #dailyentry: "black hole sign, 702" #IndexSky
February 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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’ 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.
February 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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#IndexSky -- where #indexes light the way
February 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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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.
December 9, 2024 at 7:59 PM