Article note: That is super cool.
I'd read it was discrete component RTL, but not that it was made entirely from wired logic and inverters made of glorious purpose-made, gold-doped NPN BJTs
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.