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Short Stuff: Tornado Alley

06 Nov 2024

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North America gets as many as 1400 tornadoes a year. The place with the next highest is the UK at 33. So the spot with the most tornadoes in the US is also the spot with the most tornadoes in the world. That would be Tornado Alley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0.089 - 10.894 Chuck

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Are there any pictures of you online? Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

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10.994 - 27.883 Dexter Thomas

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts. I'm Dexter Thomas, host of Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now. Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

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28.063 - 35.849 Chuck

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

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35.989 - 44.516 Dexter Thomas

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.

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44.616 - 50.101 Chuck

Listen to Kill Switch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

55.694 - 63.02 Josh

Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave, and this is Stuff You Should Know Short Stuff.

63.861 - 77.852 Jerry

That's right. We're talking about tornadoes again on the show. We've talked plenty about tornadoes and Tornado Alley, even, but we're going to talk more about it because probably since we did the last update on Tornado Alley, it seems like it might be changing a bit, right?

78.112 - 92.502 Josh

Yeah, definitely, for sure. And just even classifying tornadoes, I'm sure we talked about the changeover because it would have happened... before we talked about it, but it would have been really new. So yeah, there's a lot to dig into about Tornado Alley and tornadoes.

92.842 - 116.577 Josh

One of the first things to understand is that Tornado Alley is a contested area of the United States of North America, but the United States in particular, that runs essentially from Texas. Why are you laughing at me? I love to bear witness when you dig yourself into a word hole and climb back out of it bravely.

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