wdym, that's clearly just a PenTomo who loves his oshi
AernaLingus
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I cooka da pizza
I could only get the abstract for the article
You should be able to get it from SSRN by clicking "Download This Paper", then "Download without registration" on the following page (you may need to scroll down a bit if you're on mobile), and finally "Download".
I'll trade my no hairs for your gray hairs 
feels like shit, just want faer back 
Yeah, it's fake. The dead giveaway is that the category for the story is also "tankies", which needless to say is not an actual category on the Fox News website (actual categories include Joe Biden, Education, Politics, Border Security, and Antisemitism Exposed)
I remember listening to a linguistics podcast this guy put out. There was some interesting content, but hooooooly shit, he was so far up his own ass that it could be hard to listen to, and as soon as he gave a political take I realized just what a dumbass he was. The fact that he wrote a book called Woke Racism should tell you all you need to know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#Political_views
Since it's pretty hard to make out, the watermark reads
spoiler
HI THIS WAS MADE BY A TRANS WOMAN AS A JOKE
IF YOU USE THIS UNIRONICALLY
I AM KILLING YOU WITH HAMMERS
Ngl I kinda love that the idea of rules-lawyering God—like, hey God, your word is law, so clearly any loopholes are intentional because you wouldn't make a mistake, right? It's not killing God, but it's something. There's even a story in the Talmud about rules-lawyering God and God being like, "Well damn, ya got me!"
(full disclosure: I am not Jewish and only know about this story from one of those Ace Attorney videos)
I was gonna be all, "I understood that reference," but I didn't realize that the Gary Larson comic named something that lacked an existing formal identifier and so thagomizer is actually used in academia to some extent (e.g. this 2023 paper). TIL!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer