WATCH: Joe Biden Violated His Mask Mandate Within Hours of Signing It.

Rules are for the little people.

DON’T BE EVIL: There’s Still No Sign of Privacy Labels for Most Google iOS Apps.

Google has not updated its major apps like Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, and YouTube since December 7 or before, and most Google apps have to date have not been updated with the Privacy Label feature.

The Google Translate, Google Authenticator, Motion Stills, Google Play Movies, and Google Classroom apps do include privacy labels even though they have not been updated recently, but Google’s search app, Google Maps, Chrome, Waze, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Home, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Assistant, Google Sheets, Google Calendar, Google Slides, Google One, Google Earth, YouTube Music, Hangouts, Google Tasks, Google Meet, Google Pay, PhotoScan, Google Voice, Google News, Gboard, Google Podcasts, and more do not display the information.

On January 5, Google told TechCrunch that the data would be added to its iOS apps “this week or the next week,” but both this week and the next week have come and gone with no update. It has now been well over a month since Google last updated its apps.

To lightly paraphrase former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: If your data harvesting is something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

SO NOW THEY’RE OFFERING TO HELP? Amazon offers to help the incoming Biden admin with COVID response.

THE UNPERSONING OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT: Twitch’s Trump ban sustained after leaving office.

DUNNO. DOES IT ALSO REPLACE SUN SPOTS AND BRING TECTONIC PLATE MOVEMENT TO A HALT? Engineers have built machines to scrub CO₂ from the air. But will it halt climate change?

WELL, YES: Von der Leyen: big tech firms need to be reined in despite Trump’s exit.

The end of Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House was celebrated by the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday, as she warned that the former US president’s rise highlighted the need to confront the internet giants who helped him spread “conspiracy theories and fake news”.

The European commission president spoke of her relief at Trump’s departure, but warned that the outgoing leader’s movement still existed, and that the digital platforms used to spread hate needed to be tackled.

Please note Von der Leyen’s tacit admission that she thought it was Big Tech’s job to determine the US election.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Everyone But Kamala Harris Is Hoping Biden Stays Healthy. “The Democrats, however, are the ‘be careful what you wish for’ party. Whenever the Democrat who sane people like us think we want gone finally is, there is a ninety-nine percent chance that his or her replacement will be even worse. Seriously, those people have a never ending supply of awful gushing forth from wherever they’re spawned.”

UNLOCKING ACHIEVEMENT: HERD IMMUNITY. Covid-19 Vaccines May Cut Transmission as Well as Symptoms.

Once again, the Covid-19 health message is getting muddled. Even as officials and scientists urge the public to get vaccinated, they warn that after vaccination, we’ll still have to go on isolating and wearing masks.

It’s a mistake to oversimplify this way. We should be talking about using the vaccines to end the pandemic — not filling people with dread that they will be stuck with isolation and masks forever. The evidence is compelling that a strong, rapid vaccination campaign could render SARS-CoV-2 less of a threat than seasonal flu through building herd immunity.

Without herd immunity as a shared goal, some might skip the vaccine, influenced by scare stories about side effects and rare allergic reactions, especially if they are young and face only a small chance of dying from the virus.

Expect to see a lot more positive messaging from the press now that Orange Man Bad is out.

WELL, GOOD. Court Blocks Biden HHS From Forcing Catholic Doctors to Perform Transgender Surgery.

I wouldn’t want to go under the knife of any surgeon happy to take orders from bureaucrats.

OY: Anti-Israel Malley Joining Biden As Special Envoy To Iran, His ‘Uncle’ Yasser Arafat Would Be So Proud.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Biden Sees Own Shadow, Predicting Just Six Weeks Of Being President.

HOW NICE OF THEM: Now the Washington Post Admits Trump Did Not Incite the Capitol Riot.

THIS COULD BE FUN: Introducing Wokeyleaks. “A regular column by an anonymous whistleblower operating deep within heart of the Social Justice Movement that is the entertainment industry. To protect their identity, they will go under the code-name ‘They/Them’. Wokeyleaks will also function as a confidential news leak organization for any other sources who wish to divulge classified information (and hilarious anecdotes) about woke culture without fear of getting canceled.”

‘UNITY’ ALWAYS MEANT ‘UNITY WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ELITES WHO DON’T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU PROLES.’

LOVELY: Trump Follows Tradition, Leaves A Note For Biden In Oval Office.

NICE: Second B-21 Under Construction as Bomber Moves Toward First Flight.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why Hasn’t Cancel Culture Come for Alec Baldwin? “The far-left star can do, or say, almost anything and Hollywood keeps calling.”

LET THE SUN SHINE IN: Shining Sunlight On Shannon Watts’ Campaign Contributions. “What’s going on here? Why is there a donation to a federal candidate using an old address in which she also donated using her current listed address in the same election cycle? Why was the old address used right in the middle of two ‘correct’ donations?”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Takes Oath of Office, We Take Shots.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What are you doing today instead of watching the fauxnauguration?

Answer: We’re day-drinking and hoping you’ll join us.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Fox News does what it should have done on November 4: Fire Chris Stirewalt
• Biden Center at center of questions about Communist Chinese influence peddling
• Trump’s final middle finger salute

Bonus Sanity: Colorado tries to break the law of supply and demand, fails.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

PLUS: Joe Biden Becomes President. “At noon, Joe Biden took the Oath of Office and became the 46th president of the United States.”

Welcome to the resistance.

HE HAD WON THE VICTORY OVER HIMSELF. HE LOVED BIG BROTHER: This unbelievably Orwellian 30-second CNN clip shows exactly what we can expect from the corporate media for the next 4 years.

CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: YouTube extends Trump suspension for another week.

PAVING THE WAY FOR VPOTUS: Wow, Politico Is No Longer Covering Up Biden’s Cognitive Decline.

FASTER, PLEASE: Brave browser takes step toward enabling a decentralized web. “Brave has just taken a step toward supporting a decentralized web by becoming the first browser to offer native integration with a peer-to-peer networking protocol that aims to fundamentally change how the internet works. The technology is called IPFS (which stands for InterPlanetary File System), a relatively obscure transport protocol that promises to improve on the dominant HTTP standard by making content faster to access and more resilient to failure and control.”

EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Biden’s Climate Team: Climate Change Is Happening Because of ‘Systemic Racism.’

CHANGE: ‘Anti-Facebook’ MeWe social network adds 2.5 million new members in one week.

I’m really happy with MeWe, and find its interface to be a huge step up from the cartoony-looking mess that Facebook has become.