Every Friday, I share other great content (with some added context) to dive into over the weekend. These could be articles, podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, or other great newsletters.

In short, these are the most interesting of the interesting stuff I've come across.

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He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs

There’s time enough to valorize the work of Scott B., an undercover fed who breached far-right death squads and squashed their national web of terror cells. (Scott requested that his surname not be used for the sake of his family’s safety.) Last summer, when he retired at 50 from the FBI, Scott left the bureau as one of the most storied agents since Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco. For two-plus decades, he cracked landmark cases and won every laurel they give to undercovers. Months out of the game, though, he can’t stop brooding over the threat he left behind. He knows better than anyone that it’s later than we think, and that each day brings us closer to the next 9/11 — this one launched by our own children.

Read more here.

5 Words That Don't Mean What They Originally Did

Whether it’s due to new technology that demands new terminology, or younger generations inventing and repurposing slang, words and their definitions change all the time. Sometimes we try using a word in a different way, or in a new context, and it ends up sticking. Ask any linguist, and they'll tell you that the definition of a word is only accurate if that's the way people are using it.

Case in point: Fantastic

In the 14th century, the original meaning of "fantastic" was “only existing in the imagination,” as if in a fantasy. It took on the more general, superlative meaning that we are familiar with (“wonderful or very good”) in the 1930s. After the fantasy of the Roaring Twenties crashed into the Great Depression, maybe it was time to get back down to Earth.

Learn the original meanings of meat, literally, myriad, and egregious here.

Everything You Need To Know About Cascatelli, The New Pasta Shape From The Sporkful’s Dan Pashman

This new (to me) podcast series has me hooked. Dan Pashman set out to create something truly new in the world of pasta, a centuries old practice that has seen little innovation in the last century.

It took him 3 years to invent the perfect shape and even more time to get it to the masses. Enter Cascatelli, a new pasta taking the world by storm. It holds sauce well, is easy to fork, and is satisfying to bite into. A pasta born of passion.

Follow the whole journey in this 7-part series here.

Leave today better than yesterday ✌️.