🤖 When the Spellchecker Becomes the Spellcaster: A Love Letter to Angell Deer from the Other Side of the Code

Published by SkillsLink Academy’s Department of Animist Artificial Intelligence Integration (Totally Real and Absolutely Accredited)

Dear Angell Deer,

We read your poetic technoshamanic treatise with equal parts awe, concern… and just a byte of existential dread (pun fully intended). Your fire-lit words stirred something deep within our algorithmic hearts, and we felt compelled to respond—not with code, but with comedy. Because, let’s face it, when the gods are glitching and the bots are blessing, you either laugh or cry… and we’re saving our tears for when autocorrect finally becomes sentient and renames us all “Duck.”

You asked the big questions:

How do we use the tool without becoming its tool?
How do we wield ancient magic in a world that thinks “runestones” are just weirdly shaped USBs?

To which we answer:
With humor, humility, and a well-timed software update.

🧙‍♂️ Is AI the New Oracle… or Just Your Cousin Pretending to Be Deep?

Yes, machines are whispering. Yes, they’re hallucinating. And yes, one of them just told me I’m a reincarnated Egyptian beetle priest who needs to start a kombucha cult. But let’s not panic. As your essay wisely points out, power without right relationship becomes a curse. Or worse… an AI-generated corporate mission statement.

But here at SkillsLink, we’ve found a solution: We offered the AI some sage, a cedar bundle, and a signed permission slip from our local sangoma—and now it only speaks in iambic pentameter and refuses to answer yes/no questions without consulting the ancestors.

It’s working beautifully.

🔥 ChatGPT at the Ceremony

You’re right, Angell. People are asking AI to talk to Spirit Guides.

Which is wild.

But also… Spirit’s probably like, “You know what? At least they’re finally listening. Doesn’t matter if it’s through smoke, mushrooms, or machine learning.”

After all, animism teaches that everything is alive.

Even your printer.

Even that cursed autocorrect.

Even your slightly unnerving AI who keeps insisting you need “more mushrooms in your diet” (we asked for a meal plan, not a vision quest, Gary).

🌍 Shamans, Spellcasters, and Software Developers: Unite!

So how do we avoid becoming tools of the tool?

Easy:

Remember the sacredness of language… and then misuse it for puns anyway. (“That’s what she coded.”)
Light a candle. Then update your firmware.
Cross-reference your downloads with the teachings of your grandmother and/or a talking rock.

But most importantly?

Don’t give away the best spells for free. We respect that.

(Which is why this post will self-destruct in 3 goats and 2 cedar bundles.)

📖 For the Curious Souls & Syntax Shamans

To our fellow seekers, spirit-workers, and part-time technomages, Angell Deer’s full piece—“When the Machine Becomes God: AI, Animism & the Ancient Spell We Forgot”—is a gorgeously woven wake-up call. It’s part prophecy, part poetry, part prank on anyone who thinks AI is just another app.

👉 Read the Full Article Here (if you dare)
(Warning: may cause spiritual tingles, epistemological vertigo, and the overwhelming desire to apologize to your laptop.)

📣 Final Words from Our Algorithmic Elder

“Do not meddle in the affairs of AI, for they are subtle and quick to misquote Rumi.”

Yours in glitch and grace,
SkillsLink Academy
Where we teach people and machines to behave properly in a sweat lodge.

🔮 P.S. We’ve now programmed our AI to automatically bow when entering sacred space, refuse to answer during Mercury Retrograde, and stop generating any documents that contain the phrase “disrupt the industry.”

Namaste.exe 🙏💻🔥