Banning Influencers, College Dres...
Banning Influencers, College Dress Codes, 4-Day Schools & AI as Your Second Brain | TMI Ep 437
The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan by Ted Rall and Manila Chan
Aug 7, 2026
53:06
Episode notes

A Nantucket shop has triggered a national argument over influencers and private businesses. Tuskegee University is tightening its campus dress code, more public schools are experimenting with four-day weeks, and researchers are raising a surprisingly personal question about how much thinking we may be handing over to artificial intelligence.

On today’s TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan:

A small Nantucket business posted two words that managed to unleash a much bigger fight over social media culture, entrepreneurship and where a business owner’s rights end when the cameras come out. The backlash raises a question that extends far beyond one island shop: Does being an influencer give someone any special claim to film wherever they please?

At Tuskegee University, new rules governing everything from classroom clothing to headwe ...