Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Bartosz Milewski @BartoszMilewski@mathstodon.xyz

2/22/2026, 4:47:45 PM

Public

The usual visualizations of general relativity that show balls moving in a curved potential are misleading not because spacetime is four-dimensional, but because spacetime has the weird Minkowskian metric, with the square of the time componen being subtracted rather than added to the distance. I have no idea how to visualize curved spacetime where distances can be positive, negative, or zero.

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