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Reminds me of classic mechanical chess-playing turk illustrations. I was about to link it here, but all the search engines could come up using plain text search
by tannhaeuser 8y ago
Reminds me of classic mechanical chess-playing turk illustrations. I was about to link it here, but all the search engines could come up using plain text search were links to Amazon's crowdsourcing thing and its competitors. We've really put the car before the horse in so many ways on the 'net, to stay with a metaphor from orientalism.
- TekMol 8y agoThe first 10 DuckDuckGo images are all about the chess playing turk: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mechanical+turk&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mechanical+turk&t=h_&iax=images&ia...
- tannhaeuser 8y agoThat's why I wrote text search.
- TekMol 8y agoAnd because of what the text search returns you cannot link to an illustration?
- tannhaeuser 8y agoMy point was that a regular user won't find the historical meaning of the term "mechanical turk" without hacks, being steered towards commercial products of that name instead.
- TekMol 8y agoOk. But in your text you seemed to say you cannot find the illustrations: Reminds me of classic mechanical chess-playing turk illustrations. I was about to link it here, but all the search engines could come up using plain text search were links to Amazon's crowdsourcing thing